Earl Godwin

Earl Godwin is the name of:

  • Earl Godwin (radio newsman), American radio newsman, commentator, and announcer
  • Godwin, Earl of Wessex (c. 1000–1053), one of the most powerful lords in England under the Danish king Cnut the Great and his successors

Famous quotes containing the word earl:

    “The greatest dangers have their allurements, if the want of success is likely to be attended with a degree of glory. Middling dangers are horrid, when the loss of reputation is the inevitable consequence of ill success.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)