Men-at-the-Bar/Godley, John Arthur

by Joseph Foster

Godley, John Arthur, C.B., M.A., Balliol Coll., Oxon, 1874, from Rugby, permanent under-secretary of state for India since 1883, a commissioner of inland revenue 1882-3, senior private secretary to Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone, first lord of the treasury, 1880-2, junior 1873-4, assistant 1872-3, a clerk in the treasury 1869-82, a student of Lincoln's Inn 6 May, 1869 (then aged 21), called to the bar 26 Jan., 1876 (eldest son of John Robert Godley, Esq., late of Killigar, co. Leitrim, dec.); born , 1847; married 26 Sept., 1871, Hon. Sarah James, dau. of Walter, Lord Northbourne, and has issue (see Foster's Peerage).

Killigar, Belturbet, co. Leitrim; 12, Portman Street, W.