James Rhoades

James Rhoades (1841 – 15 March 1923) was an Anglo–Irish poet, translator and author. He worked as a schoolmaster.

Life Rhoades was born in Clonmel, County Tipperary and was educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1864 and M.A. in 1867. He taught at Haileybury College and Sherborne School.

Rhoades married Charlotte Elizabeth Lester, daughter of Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Parkinson Lester, they had two sons and two daughters together. He married secondly Alice Hunt, daughter of John Hunt.

Works Rhoades has been described as "a conventional poet who wrote of imperial war in a conservative idiom and a grandiloquent style".