Education
He was educated at Ottery Street Mary school, and trained for the law, being admitted to practise as a solicitor in Trinity term 1832.
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Edward Rodd
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On John"s death Rodd was joined by one Drake, and after the latter"s death the firm became Rodd & Cornish. Rodd retired about 1878. He had also held many official posts in the town.
He was town clerk from 1847, clerk to the local board from 1849, clerk to the Board of Guardians from the passing of the Poor Law Amendment Acting 1834, and superintendent registrar, besides being head distributor of stamps in Cornwall from 1844 to 1867.
Rodd was an ardent ornithologist, and especially interested in the question of migration. He studied minutely the avifauna of Cornwall, and it was entirely due to his exertion that many a rare bird was rescued from oblivion, while several species were added by him to the list of British birds.
He contributed upwards of twenty papers on ornithological matters to The Zoologist, the Ibis, and the Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall from 1843 onwards. All were lost when Trebartha was destroyed by fire in 1949.
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January 2, 1880 (aged 69)