Richard Roderick (baptized 1710, died 20 July 1756) was a British editor and poet. A native of Cambridgeshire, Roderick was admitted pensioner of

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, on 20 December 1728, and graduated B.A. in 1732. 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 M.A. on 5 June 1736. On 19 January 1743 he was admitted to a fellowship at

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, probably through the influence of Edward Abbot, master of Magdalene College (1740-6), who was his cousin. Roderick was elected Fellow of the

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on 21 June 1750, and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries on 6 February 1752. He died on 20 July 1756. Roderick was the intimate friend and coadjutor of Thomas Edwards in the latter's ''Canons of Criticism''. The ''Shepherd's Farewell to his Love'', from

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, and the riddles that follow, which are inserted in

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's ''Collection of Poetry'' (ed. 1766, ii. 309–21), are by Roderick, and his translation of No. 13 in the Odes of Horace, book iv., is inserted in

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's versions of

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(ii. 248–9). Edwards dedicated No. xxxix. of his sonnets to Roderick.

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* 1710s births 1756 deaths 18th-century English poets Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge English male poets Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London {{England-poet-stub