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Walter Eustace Rhodes

1872 – 1918

English historian, translator, librarian and soldier

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Lived 1872 – 1918 (aged 45–46). Walter Eustace Rhodes was a British translator.

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

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

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.

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: "The Italian bankers in England and their loans to Edward I and Edward II" in Historical essays by members of the Owens college, Manchester (1901) p. 137-168

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1872
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Died
1918
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English historian, translator, librarian and soldier (1872-1918)

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Walter Eustace Rhodes was born in 1872.

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Walter Eustace Rhodes was a translator.

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Walter Eustace Rhodes was British.

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· Wikipedia: Walter Eustace Rhodes

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