Author: Rhoades, James Peter
Biography:
RHOADES, James Peter (1802-52: ancestry.co.uk)
Probably born in 1802, he was baptised on 26 Mar. 1805 at Chichester, the youngest of nine children of Thomas Rhoades, solicitor, clergyman, and alumnus of Trinity College, Oxford, and his wife Sarah Cobden, who had married in 1785. He was educated at Midhurst School, West Sussex, and Wadham College, Oxford (matric. 1820, BA 1825, MA 1829, Fellow 1830-2). His prize poem, listed here, was dated June 18, Midhurst School, and his age given as 16. He also won the prize the following year with his shorter poem, Constantinople taken by the Turks (Chichester 1819). He married Philadelphia Palmer Tull (1801-67) on 4 Dec. 1832 at St. Mary’s, Shaw cum Donnington, Berkshire. He was Rector of Clonmel, Ireland, 1832-42. (His connections to Clonmel are unclear. Prior to his appointment in 1832, he was resident in 1830, and still visited in 1846 after he had given up the Rectorship.) In 1845 he was appointed Curate at Trinity, Walcot, Bath. By 1851, he was living with his wife, seven children, and servants in Rugby where he died on 6 Nov. 1852 and was buried at St. Andrew’s. He educated his sons at Rugby school and one of them, James Rhoades (1841-1923), was also a poet and translator. (ancestry.co.uk 13 Apr. 2022; findmypast.co.uk 13 Apr. 2022; CCEd 13 Apr. 2022; OUCH 8 Dec. 1832, 13 Nov. 1852; Morning Post 3 Aug. 1867) AA
Other Names:
- J. P. Rhoades