Richard Roderick was a British

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 editor and poet.

A native of Cambridgeshire, was admitted pensioner of Queens' College, Cambridge

Queens' College, Cambridge

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, on 20 Dec. 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 Jan. 1743 he was admitted to a fellowship at Magdalene College, Cambridge

Magdalene College, Cambridge

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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 Royal Society

Royal Society

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  on 21 June 1750, and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries

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 on 6 Feb. 1752. He died on 20 July 1756.

Roderick was the intimate friend and coadjutor of Thomas Edwards

Thomas Edwards (critic)

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 in the latter's Canons of Criticism. The Shepherd's Farewell to his Love, from Metastasio

Metastasio

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, and the riddles that follow, which are inserted in Robert Dodsley

Robert Dodsley

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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 William Duncombe

William Duncombe

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's versions of Horace

Horace

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