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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.