Godfrey Davies FBA (13 May 1892 – 28 May 1957) was an English historian of the 17th century and member of the research staff of the Huntington Library.
The Mississippi Valley Historical Review summarized his contributions by noting: "Through his published works he came to be recognized as a leading authority in seventeenth-century English history, and through his innumerable services to British and American students who have worked at the Huntington Library during the past quarter of a century he made a leading contribution not only to his own but also to many fields of historical scholarship.
As Davies noted in his introduction to the first edition in 1928, "He has assisted at every stage of the growth of this bibliography; his library and unrivalled store of knowledge were always open to me.
In 1930, the California Institute of Technology appointed him an associate professor, a post he held until his death in 1957.
[9][10] He lived the latter part of his life in San Marino, California, where he was a research scholar at the Huntingdon Library.