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  Biography for: James Rennell Rodd
James Rennell Rodd was the 1st Baron Rennell, a poet, a diplomat and an amateur painter and archaeologist.
Rodd was a familiar face in artistic and literary circles in London.
Rodd travelled to Rome in 1902 and then to Stockholm where, in 1905, he was accorded the G.C.V.O. He was installed at the embassy in Rome from 1908-1919 where his experience and assurance was of great value to the British Government, especially during 1915, when Italy's affiliation to the Allies was as yet undecided.
www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk /biog/Rodd_R.htm   (486 words)

  
 Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron Rennell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron Rennell of Rodd in the County of Hereford GCB, GCMG, GCVO, PC (9 November 1858– 26 July 1941), known as Sir Rennell Rodd before 1933, was a British diplomat, poet and politician.
Rodd was made a CB in 1897, a KCMG in 1899, a GCVO in 1905, a GCMG in 1915 and a GCB in 1920.
Lord Rennell died in July 1941, aged 82, and was succeeded in the barony by his second but eldest surviving son Francis James Rennell Rodd, who later served as President of the Royal Geographical Society.
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 The Rodds of Prince Edward Island - 1944   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Rodd's of Prince Edward Island are descended from a soldier and their history for five generations at least a partial history of the militia on Prince Edward Island, for each successive generation has been intimately connected with the militia of their time.
John Rodd was appointed fence viewer for New Glasgow Road at the Hilary term Supreme Court in 1838, and in 1839 he was constable at Brackley Point Road, an appointment which was repeated again by the January, 1842, session of supreme court.
The Rodds of Prince Edward Island have no need to stand in the reflected glow of honours won by other branches of the family, yet it is interesting to note that the older branches of the family in England have been prominent for many centuries.
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 Keats Shelly House - History
The Englishman, Rennell Rodd, who later saved the graves in the cemetery in Testaccio, was a poet as well as a brilliant diplomat.
Rennell Rodd led the drive in the United Kingdom, Johnson in the United States and Nelson Gay in Italy.
The formal dedication by the King of Italy, Vittorio Emanuele III, took place on 3 April 1909 was attended by descendants of the poets; Lloyd Griscom, the American Ambassador; Sir Rennell Rodd and Rudyard Kipling for the United Kingdom; Adolpho de Bosis, a young Italian Shellyan, and Nelson Gay.
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 thePeerage.com - Mary Elizabeth Jill Rodd and others
She married Sir Francis James Rennell Rodd, 2nd Baron Rennell, son of James Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron Rennell and Lilias Georgina Guthrie, on 3 August 1928.
Lilias Charlotte Allegra Nell Rodd is the daughter of John Adrian Tremaynw Rodd, 3rd Baron Rennell and Phyllis Caroline Neill.
She married Commander Gustaf Guthrie Rennell Rodd, son of James Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron Rennell and Lilias Georgina Guthrie, on 6 December 1932.
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 Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 - pafg1210 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Francis James Rennell RODD was born 25 Oct 1895.
Gustaf Guthrie Rennell RODD was born 13 Jul 1905.
Francis James Rennell RODD [Parents] was born 25 Oct 1895.
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 Whistler Correspondence: JW to James Rennell Rodd, [25/30 September 1888?] [05348]
James Rennell Rodd (1858-1941), 1st Baron Rennell, poet and diplomat [biography].
Rodd was then a diplomat at the British Embassy in Berlin.
Probably J. Rodd to JW, transcription">#05215 to which this letter appears to be a reply.
www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk /letters/05348.asp   (393 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - Sir Charles Murray Marling and others
She married Commander Gustaf Guthrie Rennell Rodd, son of James Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron Rennell and Lilias Georgina Guthrie, on 15 May 1948.
She married John Adrian Tremaynw Rodd, 3rd Baron Rennell, son of Commander Gustaf Guthrie Rennell Rodd and Yvonne Mary Marling, on 3 May 1977.
She is the daughter of James Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron Rennell and Lilias Georgina Guthrie.
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 Part 5: American Wildes
The overall effect of the rice paper,the turquoise ink, the colorful green interleaves, and the prints (such as one of a crane eating a frog) is such that the book links the aesthetic fascination with the orient with a physical realization of the delicate evanescence of aesthetic sentiment.
Wilde convinced Stoddart to do a small run of these texts (175) for his friend Rennell Rodd, who had won Oxford s Newdigate prize in 1880,and the run was done by July of 1882 while Wilde was still in America.
Rodd tried to have the introduction withdrawn, but failed, and soon after Wilde's return to London, Rodd ended their friendship.
www.nyu.edu /library/bobst/research/fales/exhibits/wilde/4america.htm   (811 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Rennell Rodd": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The diplomat Rennell Rodd addressed her as 'Hypatia', evoking the image of the beautiful, pagan intellectual of early Christian Alexandria, and Salomon Reinach reminded...
It was now that he became friendly with a paler poet, Rennell Rodd, four years younger than he was.
Rennell Rodd - "so distinguished and popular a diplomatist" - who was then Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Sweden, to some...
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 Rugby news, fun, results, fixtures and features from Planet-Rugby.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The first Baron Rennell of Rodd in the County of Hereford was a diplomat, poet, scholar and politician, British ambassador to Italy during World War I. His family was enormously well connected.
His second son, Francis James Rennell Rodd, who was the oldest surviving son, succeeded to the barony on his father's death in 1941.
Lord Rennell was born in Motherwell on 20 April 1934 and died in Hawick on 27 November 2006.
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 Memoirs or Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople eBook
According to one account he had been blinded, or all but blinded, by the Greeks, and in a treacherous manner, when sent, at an earlier date, on an embassy to Constaritinople-whence his bitter hostility to the Greek Empire.
I agree, however, with Sir Rennell Rodd that, if this had been so, Villehardouin would scarcely have refrained from mentioning such an act of perfidy on the part of the wicked Greeks.
41 of Vol 1of Sir Rennell Rodd’s Princes of Achaia.) It is hardly to be imagined that he would keep the matter dark because, if he mentioned it, people would think Dandolo acted throughout from motives of personal vengeance.
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 English Poetry, Second Edition Bibliography: R
Rodd, James Rennell, Sir, 1858-, Newdigate Prize Poem.
Rodd, James Rennell, Sir, 1858-, Rose Leaf and Apple Leaf: By Rennell Rodd: With an Introduction by Oscar Wilde
Rodd, James Rennell, Sir, 1858-, The Violet Crown by Sir Rennell Rodd.
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 THE CORPORAL WHO SAT ON THE THRONE OF KINGI GEORGI
The return journey was uneventful and Rodd despatched a letter to Jongeni demanding its surrender.
For the second expedition 200 naval personnel, 34 Seedies and five others including Sir Lloyd Mathews, Mr Rennell Rodd, Brigadier General Hatch, Captain Rogers and Dr Rae, the medical officer, received the medal and clasp WITU AUGUST 1893.
Reading between the lines, it would appear that the first expedition was overkill in terms of personnel and logistical support for what amounted to a one day operation; hence when Rennel Rodd requested assistance on the second occasion, the Navy’s response appears to have been less enthusiastic.
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 An Essay in Addis Ababa History 2
Such is the shortage of fuel all about here that the peasants are in the habit of collecting cows' dung and making it into round flat cakes which they sell [for fuel] for a fair price".
The above picture was confirmed by the British envoy Rennell Rodd.
He declared that "the region up to Addis Ababa" was "now entirely deforested, though evidences are not wanting that it was at a former time wooded enough in places".
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 Obituary of Sir Harold Edwin Boulton 1859
At Balliol, under Jowett, he continued his interest in music and turned also to literature.
With Rennell Rodd (now Lord Rennell) he founded and edited a magazine of contemporary poetry.
In 1881 he was proxime accessit for the Newdigate Prize Poem.
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 The Keats-Shelley House History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
By great good fortune, the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association was formed in 1907 with support from King Edward VII, President Theodore Roosevelt and King Vittorio Emanuele III, who opened the House to the Public on April 3, 1909.
At the ceremony Sir Rennell Rodd, the British Ambassador, announced the determination of the Association of Committees ‘to guard the House against all possibility of further desecration by dedicating it to the memory of the two great poets whose names are indissolubly associated with Rome and Italy.’
During the past eighty years the House has survived two World Wars and threat of bankruptcy.
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 jac1047
A photograph taken in JW's studio in 1881 shows JW with Story, his brother Julian, the painter Frank Miles and the sculptor Frederick Lawless.
Sir Rennell Rodd recalls that particularly in 1882 and 1883 Story, along with his brother Julian, Frank Miles, Walter Sickert and Harper Pennington were constantly in JW's studio.
In December 1882 JW talked of setting up a kind of artist's society, the 'Chelsea Club', in Rossetti's old home, Tudor House on Cheyne Walk.
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 Rodd Products   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Rodd & Gunn Polo Shirt - L - Maroon Strip
Sir Rennell Rodd Author Poet MP Signed Autograph
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 Embassy of Ethiopia, Washington, DC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The watershed event that set the stage for greater Ethiopian involvement in international diplomacy was Ethiopia's military victory at Adwa over the would-be colonial Italy in 1896.
In the words of British Envoy Sir Rennell Rodd, Ethiopa's prowess at Adwa made its Emperor, Menilik II, "a power to reckon with".
From that moment on, Ethiopia was collectively referred to as "the last problem in Africa" in European colonialist circles.
www.ethiopianembassy.org /GWSpeech.shtml   (1610 words)

  
 Find in a Library: Frederick, crown prince and emperor; a biographical sketch dedicated to his memory,
Frederick, crown prince and emperor; a biographical sketch dedicated to his memory,
by Rennell Rodd; Victoria, Empress consort of Frederick III German Emperor
by Rennell Rodd; Victoria, Empress consort of Frederick III German Emperor; Messrs.
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 Rodd Products
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This research was founded in part through the President's fellowship of the University of California, at Berkeley.
Rennell, Rodd, The Customs and Lore of Modern Greece, p.
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, lines 92-93, editor Helene Folley.
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 Sir J. Rennell Rodd. Social and Diplomatic Memories. 1902-1919. Chapter VIII
SIR JAMES RENNELL RODD, G.C.B. Antecedents of the Great War.
Retrospect over relations between Great Britain and Germany from 1889.
When, owing to maladroit and reckless manoeuvres, the former plan not only miscarried but led to the precisely opposite result, administrative Irritation and popular sentiment joined forces and added momentum to the current of antagonism to Great Britain.
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 PALAZZO ROCCANERA: PALAZZO ANTICI-MATTEI
Designed by Giacomo della Porta with bronze figures by Taddeo Landini this fountain has a great appeal: the four youths are not angels: real life comes out of their nervous bodies, while the tortoises hint some mysterious ceremony.
SIR JAMES RENNELL RODD, G.C.B. A few of the great Roman ladies, such as the Duchess Massimo, the gracious Princess of Venosa, and the Marchesa Pallavicini, still held their weekly receptions, and an after-glow of the old stately life was then still perceptible.
It has passed away now, and it can never return.
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 Classics Latin Greek Teaching Aids.
Where we lesser mortals find them past our reach,
A Roman Mirror by Sir James Rennell Rodd
THEY found it in her hollow marble bed,
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