Henry Darnley Naylor (21 February 1872 – 8 December 1945), generally known as Darnley Naylor, was a British-born Australian academic who became Emeritus Professor of Classics in the University of Adelaide, South Australia.
[1] Naylor was a Lecturer and tutor at Ormond College, University of Melbourne, from 1895–1906.
[3] He was associated with the South Australian Literary Societies' Union and was its president in 1909.
Naylor was an associate of the classical scholar Gilbert Murray who was a leading Liberal Party intellectual.
They shared a particular interest in internationalism and were both active in the League of Nations Union.
In 1926 he had been selected as Liberal prospective candidate for the Whitehaven division of Cumberland.