Roderic Dunkerley (July 20, 1884 – May 6, 1966) was an English
Congregational minister and Christian writer. Born in
Bedford Park,
Ealing
Ealing () is a district in west London (sub-region), west London, England, west of Charing Cross in the London Borough of Ealing. It is the administrative centre of the borough and is identified as a major metropolitan centre in the London Pl ...
, West London, he was the son of novelist and hymn-writer
William Arthur Dunkerley
William Arthur Dunkerley (12 November 1852 – 23 January 1941) was an English people, English journalist, novelist and poet. He was born in Manchester, spent a short time after his marriage in the US before moving to Ealing, West London, whe ...
( John Oxenham), with whom he collaborated on the novel "The Pageant of the King's Children" (1930).
He also composed hymns, such a
"Dear Father, whom we cannot see"
The novelist
Elsie J. Oxenham
Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley (25 November 1880 – 9 January 1960), was an English girls' story writer, who took the name Oxenham as her pseudonym when her first book, '' Goblin Island'', was published in 1907. Her Abbey Series of 38 titles are her ...
was his sister, as was Erica Oxenham, the biographer of their father, who gives brief details of his early life within the pages of those biographies. He was married and had children.
[Godfrey, Monica. (2003). ''The World of Elsie Jeanette Oxenham and Her Books''. Girls Gone By Publishers. p. 21]
Books
*''The Great Awakening'' (1915)
*''The Arm of God'' (1916)
*''Postman's Knock'' (1918)
*''The Proclamation'' (1920)
*''The Unwritten Gospel'' (1925)
*''First Prayers'' (1929)
*''The Pageant of the King's Children'' (1930) (with his father,
John Oxenham
John Oxenham ( "John Oxnam", died ) was the first non-Spanish European explorer to cross the Isthmus of Panama in 1575, climbing the coastal cordillera to get to the Pacific Ocean, then referred to by the Spanish as the ''Mar del Sur'' ('Souther ...
)
*''Treasure Trove'' (1948)
*''The Secret Moment'' (1949)
*''The Hope of Jesus'' (1953)
*''At the House of the Interpreter'' (1956)
*''Beyond the Gospels'' (1957)
*''Prayer Time in the Junior School'' (1958) (with his son, Gregor Hamilton Dunkerley)
References
Bibliography
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1884 births
1966 deaths
British Christian writers
Congregationalist writers
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