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Edward James Rodd
1847 - 1933

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• Birth	1847	London, England. 4Q1847 Marylebone 1 139
  Gender	Male
  Died	7 Oct 1933	Chatswood Reg No 18162/1933
  Buried	9 Oct 1933	Gore Hill Methodist 2A Plot 48
  Person ID	I1287	Forsyth Tanners
  Last Modified	23 Feb 2013

  
  

  Family	Mary A Kendall,   d. 31 May 1923, Chatswood Reg No 6731/1923
  Married	1874	Sydney Reg No 213/1874
  Children	1. Annie Rodd,   b. 13 Mar 1875, Sydney Reg No 661/1875 ,   d. 26 Jul 1940, "Illinois", Railway St, Chatswood. NSW
  Last Modified	23 Feb 2013
  Family ID	F093	Group Sheet

  
  

• Notes

  RODD, Edward James (1848-1933)Michael HorsburghRODD, EDWARD JAMES (b. London, England, 1848, d. Sydney, NSW, 7 Nov 1933). Methodist minister and theological educator. E J Rodd entered the Methodist ministry in England in 1868 and trained under Dr W F Moulton at Richmond College. He arrived in Sydney in 1871 and served in Methodist circuits in NSW and Qld. In 1900 he was appointed clerical president of Newington College, the Methodist boys' school, and theological tutor at the Theological Institution attached to the College known as the Hermitage. At the same time he was appointed as principal of the Methodist Ladies' College at Burwood, where he also resided. During his period at MLC he secured the registration of the school under the Education Act of 1912 which allowed the introduction of the Leaving Certificate and opened the way to university studies for the school's graduates. He was president of the NSW Methodist Conference in 1899 and retired in 1914. Rodd's ministry was described on his retirement as marked by 'wise administration, sympathetic visitation and especially by cultured and effective preaching'. At MLC, however, he was described as being distant and aloof, not understanding girls as well as his predecessor the Rev Dr C J Prescott. A literal and factual man, moral direction was for him more important than information and intellectual training. Methodist Conference, NSW, Minutes (Sydney, 1914); C J Prescott, 'The evolution of Leigh College', J & P Aust Meth Hist Soc 49 (1946): 680-82; MLC Burwood, Jubilee Souvenir (Sydney, 1936); S & R Coupe, Walk in the Light (Sydney, 1986) MICHAEL HORSBURGH Electronic Version © Southern Cross College, 2004 Content © Evangelical History Association of Australia and the author, 2004 Minister of the Crows Nest Uniting Church 1888-89 Other Children 3273/1876 RODD CLARA EDWARD JAMES MARY ANN SYDNEY 26092/1882 RODD ARTHUR EDWARD MARY A ORANGE 25079/1878 RODD ALICE EDWARD JAMES MARY ANN GUNNING 9870/1889 RODD EDNA M EDWARD J MARY A ST LEONARDS