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RHODES, SAMUEL; b. c. 1645; adm. 13 Apr 1656; a boarder (Busby’s Account Book); d. c. 1728. [Whitmore]

RHODES, RICHARD, son of Benjamin Rhodes, St. James, Clerkenwell, London, and Maulden, Beds., Steward to Earls of Elgin, and Anne Glover, St. James, Clerkenwell, gentlewoman to Countess of Elgin; bapt. St. James Clerkenwell 27 Dec 1640 (IGI); adm. 17 Sep 1655; a boarder; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1658, matr. 31 Jul 1658, aged 18, Westminster Student; BA 22 Mar 1661/2; Montpelier Univ. (degree in medicine); travelled in Spain; described by Wood as “a confident Westmonasterian, a violinist to hold between his knees” (Ath. Oxon., i, xxxv); his play, Flora’s Vagaries, published in 1670, was acted by the Students of Christ Church 8 Jan 1663/4 (Thompson, Christ Church, 95-6), and afterwards in London, where the part of Flora was taken by Nell Gwyn; m.; d. at Madrid 1668. DNB.

Rhodes, Nicholas Gervase, son of Alfred Henry Brian Rhodes MB ChB MRCGP, gen. med. practitioner, and Ruth, d. of Wilfred Whiteley, mill owner and engineer, of Elland, Yorks; b. 26 May 1946; adm. Sept. 1959 (QS); left July 1964; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1964, BA 1967, MA 1977; an actuary, FIA 1973; Legal & General Assurance Soc. 1967-76; Victory Reinsurance Co. 1976-89; NRG Victory Reinsurance Co. 1989-94; Chief Actuary, GE Frankona Reassurance 1994-2002; hon. treas. Roy. Numismatic Soc. 1973-2002, hon. Fellow 2002; sec. -gen. Oriental Numismatic Soc. 1997-; the leading authority of his generation on the coinages of the Himalayan region; joint author, The Coinage of Nepal 1989, and joint author of similar monographs on the coinages of Assam, Cooch Behar, Tripura and other Indian states; m. 17 Aug. 1970 Deki Tsering, d. of Maj. Wangchuck Dorji Laden-La of Darjeeling, India; d. 6 July 2011.

Rhodes, Kenneth Austin, son of Edmund Rhodes LDS RCS, dental surgeon and radiologist, and Edith Bryan, d. of William Edward Turner of Liverpool; b. 3 Feb. 1914; adm. fan. 1928 (A); left July 1931; RAF Rgt in WW2 (Sqdn Ldr); man. dir. Ellerman & Smith Ltd, life assurance bro­kers, retd 1972; m. 1 Apr. 1939 Joan May, d. of Frederick Aldridge of New Barnet, Herts.; Apr. 1998.

Rhodes, Geoffrey James Evelyn, brother of Kenneth Austin Rhodes (qv); b. 29 Sept. 1915; adm. Sept. 1929 (A); left Dec. 1931; founder member Inst. of Welfare Officers; m. 5 May 1945 Georgina Josephine Elizabeth, d. of T. Jackson of Liverpool.

RHODES, CHRISTOPHER; b.; adm.; KS 1692; left 1694; one of the managers for taking the option of the proprietors of lotteries 1717; Commissioner of the Excise (S) 1730-61; a Director of the State Lottery 1731; General Inspector of the Excise on Tea 1742; m. 8 Feb 1708/9 Joan Boteler, St. Margaret, Westminster.

RHODES, CHRISTOPHER, son of Christopher Rhodes (qv); b.; adm. Jun 1720; KS (aged 12) 1725; Capt. of the School 1729; spoke the prologue on the first representation of the Play in the New Dormitory, Christmas 1729; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1730, matr. 16 Jun 1730, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1730 – void 26 Jun 1740; BA 1734; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 14 Jan 1731/2. [Perhaps “C. Rhodes”, who was Secretary to Charles Fane, British Minister, Tuscany, in 1735; and perhaps Christopher Rhodes, Chatham, Kent, will proved PCC 13 Jan 1787]

REYNOLDS, THOMAS, son of Lawrence Reynolds, Paxton Hall, Hunts., and Mary, dau. of Thomas Cole, Doddington, Cambs.; b. 2 Feb 1813; adm. 14 Feb 1827 (Stikeman's); Pembroke Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 13 Apr 1832; BA 1838; MA 1843; ordained deacon (Norwich) 10 Jan 1841, priest 1842; Vicar of Holy Trinity, Woolwich, Kent 1854-60.