Quote of the day
After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.
A. D. Godley

Born: 1856
Died: 1925 (aged 69)
Bio: Alfred Denis Godley was an English classical scholar and author of humorous poems. From 1910 to 1920 he was Public Orator at the University of Oxford, a post that involved composing citations in Latin for the recipients of honorary degrees.
Known for:
- The Casual Ward: Academic and Other Oddments (1912)
- Lyra Frivola (1899)
- Oxford in the Eighteenth Century (1908)
- Socrates And Athenian Society In His Day (1896)






