John Medows Rodwell
1808–1900
Clergyman and orientalist. BA, Cambridge (Gonville and Caius College), 1830. Friend and contemporary of CD’s at Cambridge. Rector of St Peter’s, Saffron Hill, London, 1836–43; of St Ethelburga’s, Bishopsgate, 1843–1900. Commenced oriental studies as a young man. Published an English version of the Koran in 1861.
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DNB.
Bibliography
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
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