L. C. (Lewis Charles) Rodd (1905 - 1979) was the husband of novelist
Kylie Tennant
Kathleen Kylie Tennant AO (; 12 March 1912 – 28 February 1988) was an Australian novelist, playwright, short-story writer, critic, biographer, and historian.
Early life and career
Tennant was born in Manly, New South Wales; she was educate ...
. Biographer of Fr.
John Hope, long-serving rector of
Christ Church St. Laurence
Christ Church St Laurence is an Anglican church located at 814 George Street, near Central railway station and Haymarket, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is the principal centre of Anglo-Catholic worship in the city and Diocese of ...
in
George Street, Sydney
George Street is a street in the central business district of Sydney.
It was Sydney's original high street, and remains one of the busiest streets in the city centre. It connects a number of the city's most important buildings and precincts. ...
.
Some of Rodd's papers are held by the
National Library of Australia
The National Library of Australia (NLA), formerly the Commonwealth National Library and Commonwealth Parliament Library, is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the ''National Library Act 1960'' for "mainta ...
.
LC Rodd was head of Woolwich Primary School around 1945.
Works
* ''
John Hope of Christ Church: a Sydney Church era'' (biography)
* ''
A Gentle Shipwreck'' (autobiography) (Sydney, Thomas Nelson, 1975) (illustrated by
Cedric Emanuel
Cedric Raymond Emanuel (1906–1995) was a New Zealand born Australian representational painter, illustrator and printmaker.Max Germaine, ''Artists and Galleries in Australia'', Roseville, N.S.W.: Craftsman House, 1990. Enlarged 3rd edition. p. ...
)
1905 births
1979 deaths
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