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vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 100%;"><div class="fn" style="font-size:125%;">Lord Kilbracken</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Arthur_Godley_in_later_life.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/Arthur_Godley_in_later_life.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="284" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="284" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:normal;padding-top:0.2em;">Lord Kilbracken in later life</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Principal_Private_Secretary_to_the_Prime_Minister" class="mw-redirect" title="Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister">Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1880–1882</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Second_Gladstone_ministry" title="Second Gladstone ministry">William Ewart Gladstone</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Montagu_Corry,_1st_Baron_Rowton" title="Montagu Corry, 1st Baron Rowton">Montagu Corry</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Edward_Walter_Hamilton" title="Edward Walter Hamilton">Edward Walter Hamilton</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">John Arthur Godley</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1847-06-17</span>)</span>17 June 1847</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">27 June 1932<span style="display:none">(1932-06-27)</span> (aged 85)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output 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D. Godley">A. D. Godley</a> <br /> <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Godley" title="Alexander Godley">Alexander Godley</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Radley_College" title="Radley College">Radley College</a> <br /> <a href="/wiki/Rugby_School" title="Rugby School">Rugby School</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Balliol_College,_Oxford" title="Balliol College, Oxford">Balliol College, Oxford</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Knight_Grand_Cross" class="mw-redirect" title="Knight Grand Cross">GCB</a> (1908)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>John Arthur Godley, 1st Baron Kilbracken</b>, <span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="/wiki/Knight_Grand_Cross_of_the_Order_of_the_Bath" class="mw-redirect" title="Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath">GCB</a></span></span> (17 June 1847 – 27 June 1932), was an <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Irish_people" title="Anglo-Irish people">Anglo-Irish</a> aristocrat and British civil servant and the longest serving, and probably the most influential, <a href="/wiki/Permanent_Under-Secretary_of_State_for_India" class="mw-redirect" title="Permanent Under-Secretary of State for India">Permanent Under-Secretary of State for India</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHesilrige1921515_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHesilrige1921515-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arthur_Godley,_1st_Baron_Kilbracken&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Arthur_Godley_painting,_1851.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Arthur_Godley_painting%2C_1851.jpg/170px-Arthur_Godley_painting%2C_1851.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Arthur_Godley_painting%2C_1851.jpg/255px-Arthur_Godley_painting%2C_1851.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Arthur_Godley_painting%2C_1851.jpg/340px-Arthur_Godley_painting%2C_1851.jpg 2x" data-file-width="598" data-file-height="800" /></a><figcaption>Godley painting by <a href="/wiki/Mary_Townsend_(artist)" title="Mary Townsend (artist)">Mary Townsend</a> (July 1851)</figcaption></figure> <p>Arthur Godley was the only son of <a href="/wiki/John_Robert_Godley" title="John Robert Godley">John Robert Godley</a>, a colonial reformer, and <a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Godley" title="Charlotte Godley">Charlotte Godley</a>, a letter-writer and community leader. From April 1850 to December 1852, he was with his parents in New Zealand; his father has become to be regarded as the founder of <a href="/wiki/Canterbury,_New_Zealand" class="mw-redirect" title="Canterbury, New Zealand">Canterbury</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-DNZB_Charlotte_Godley_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNZB_Charlotte_Godley-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-DNZB_Godley_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNZB_Godley-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Godley Jr. was painted by <a href="/wiki/Mary_Townsend_(artist)" title="Mary Townsend (artist)">Mary Townsend</a> in 1851; the original is held by <a href="/wiki/Canterbury_Museum,_Christchurch" title="Canterbury Museum, Christchurch">Canterbury Museum</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He studied at <a href="/wiki/Radley_College" title="Radley College">Radley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rugby_School" title="Rugby School">Rugby</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Balliol_College,_Oxford" title="Balliol College, Oxford">Balliol College, Oxford</a> (where he won the <a href="/wiki/Gaisford_Prize" title="Gaisford Prize">Gaisford Prize</a> for Greek Verse). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arthur_Godley,_1st_Baron_Kilbracken&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>His first important role was acting as Assistant Private Secretary to <a href="/wiki/William_Ewart_Gladstone" title="William Ewart Gladstone">William Ewart Gladstone</a>, then <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">Prime Minister</a>, during the years 1872 to 1874 and called to <a href="/wiki/Lincoln%27s_Inn" title="Lincoln's Inn">Lincoln's Inn</a> bar in 1876.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHesilrige1921515_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHesilrige1921515-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was elected a fellow of <a href="/wiki/Hertford_College,_Oxford" title="Hertford College, Oxford">Hertford College, Oxford</a> for the period 1874 to 1881. In 1880 Godley was appointed Commissioner for <a href="/wiki/Inland_Revenue" title="Inland Revenue">Inland Revenue</a>, a position he held till 1882. Appointed Under-Secretary of State at the India Office in 1883, he remained there for 26 years, retiring in 1909. He was a member of the 'Royal Commission on Indian Finance and Currency' in 1913.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHesilrige1921515_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHesilrige1921515-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was bestowed a <a href="/wiki/Knight_Grand_Cross" class="mw-redirect" title="Knight Grand Cross">GCB</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1908_Birthday_Honours" title="1908 Birthday Honours">1908 Birthday honours</a> list,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and on 8 December 1909 he was raised to the peerage as The <a href="/wiki/Baron_Kilbracken" title="Baron Kilbracken">Baron Kilbracken</a>, of Killegar in the <a href="/wiki/County_Leitrim" title="County Leitrim">County of Leitrim</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His autobiography, <i>Reminiscences of Lord Kilbracken</i>, was published in 1931, the year before he died.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKilbracken1931_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKilbracken1931-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arthur_Godley,_1st_Baron_Kilbracken&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Lord Kilbracken was a first cousin of the classical scholar <a href="/wiki/A._D._Godley" title="A. D. Godley">A. D. Godley</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was married to Sarah (Sarina) James daughter of 1st <a href="/wiki/Baron_Northbourne" title="Baron Northbourne">Baron Northbourne</a> on 26 September 1871 until her death on 13 September 1921. 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