Charles Roderick,
D.D.
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was an
Anglican Dean at the end of the 17th century and the beginning of the 18th.
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Bunbury, Cheshire
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and educated at
Eton and
King's College, Cambridge
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. He was
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of
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from 1682 to 1690. He held
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at
Raynham and
Milton, Cambridgeshire
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. Roderick was
Provost of King's College, Cambridge from 1691 until his death; and
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge between 1690 and 1691. He was
Dean of
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from 1708 until his death on 29 March 1712.
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