Alfred Denis Godley (22 January 185627 June 1925) was an Anglo-Irish classical scholar and author of humorous poems.
Godley was born in Ashfield, County Cavan, to Rev James Godley and his wife Eliza La Touche. James was the Church of Ireland Rector of Ashfield from 1849 to 1861, then Rector of Lavey. From 1866 to 1904 he served as Rector of Carrigallen, County Leitrim.
He was educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford and was elected
to a Fellowship at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1883.
Godley's published works include:
- Verses to Order (1892)
- Aspects of Modern Oxford (1894)
- Socrates and Athenian Society in His Day (1896)
- Lyra Frivola (1899)
- Second Strings (1902)
- Oxford in the Eighteenth Century (1908)
- The Casual Ward (1912)
- Reliquiae A. D. Godley (1926)
He also published translations of Herodotus (1921) and Horace's Odes (1898).
Godley was a first-cousin of The 1st Baron Kilbracken, who, as Sir Arthur Godley, was the long-serving Permanent Under-Secretary of State for India.
He was also an active mountaineer and the vice-president of the Alpine Club in 1924.