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A native of Cambridgeshire, Roderick was admitted pensioner of Queens" College, Cambridge, on 20 December 1728, and graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1732.
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He subsequently became a fellow commoner of the college, and a grace was granted by the president and fellows for him to proceed to the degree of Master of Arts on 5 June 1736. Roderick was elected Fellow of the Royal Society on 21 June 1750, and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries on 6 February 1752. He died on 20 July 1756.
The Shepherd"s Farewell to his Love, from Metastasio, and the riddles that follow, which are inserted in Robert Dodsley"s Collection of Poetry (ed 1766, ii 309-21), are by Roderick, and his translation of Number.
13 in the Odes of Horace, book iv., is inserted in William Duncombe"s versions of Horace (ii 248-9). Edwards dedicated Number. xxxix. of his sonnets to Roderick.
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