John Edward Courtenay Bodley

John Edward Courtenay Bodley (6 June 1853 – 28 May 1925) was an English civil servant, known for his writings on France.

[3] An active Freemason, he approached Oscar Wilde, then also an undergraduate, and introduced him to a Masonic Lodge in Oxford.

[4] Richard Ellmann[5] attributes to Bodley a long, spiteful New York Times article that appeared on Wilde, on 21 January 1882.

[12] When Émile Boutmy, a follower of Taine, had his work on England in the same vein translated into English,[13] Bodley wrote an introduction.

His daughter Ava married Ralph Wigram in 1925,[18] and John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley, in 1941.