Walter Eustace Rhodes

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Walter Rhodes
Born Walter Eustace Rhodes
1872 (1872)
Died (aged 46)
Cause of death Killed in action
Nationality English
Occupation Historian
Military career
Allegiance  United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
Rank Private
Service number 79174
Unit Devonshire Regiment
Battles/wars First World War  †
File:Manchester University War Memorials-geograph-4363026.jpg
War memorial, Old Quadrangle, University of Manchester

Walter Eustace Rhodes (1872 – 13 July 1918) was an English historian, translator, librarian and soldier.[1]

Rhodes was the son of John and Ellen Rhodes, of Cheetham, Manchester.[2] From 1895 until his resignation in 1903 he was the librarian of Owens College Library.[3]

During the First World War he served as a private in the Devonshire Regiment. He was killed on 13 July 1918 and is memorialised on the war memorial of the University of Manchester.[4]

Works

Rhodes made several contributions to the Dictionary of National Biography. He also had material published by the Chetham Society

  • The Apostolical Life of Ambrose Barlow, (ed.) (1909) Manchester: Chetham Society
  • Chetham miscellanies, (1909) Manchester: Chetham Society

Also:

References

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