Godfrey Rhodes (March 8, 1815 – September 8, 1897) was a royal advisor on the Privy Councils of State to Hawaiian monarchs Kamehameha V, Lunalilo, Kalākaua and Liliʻuokalani.

He would later recall that indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast liked to visit Hawaii, and in 1839 it became his job to transport them back to their point of origin.

Cabinet ministers, governors of the four major islands of the kingdom, and other members the monarch appointed to act in an advisory capacity, made up the composition of the council.

[4] According to the Hawaii state archives, Rhodes was a member of the Privy Council of the Hawaiian Kingdom through the reigns of Kamehameha V, Lunalilo, Kalākaua and Liliʻuokalani.

[8] Rhodes had been in ill health in 1882 when Henri Berger and the Royal Hawaiian Band celebrated his life with a concert on his lawn.

In a subsequent newspaper interview, Rhodes recalled many events of his life, including the night Kamehameha IV died on November 30, 1863.