[1][2] He was educated at Ottery St Mary school, and trained for the law, being admitted to practise as a solicitor in Trinity term 1832.
[1][4] A carillon, costing about £300 and paid for by public subscription, was installed in St Mary's Church as a memorial to Rodd.
The first to be erected in Cornwall, it was completed by Gillett, Bland & Co on 10 November 1880 and plays fourteen tunes.
He contributed upwards of twenty papers on ornithological matters to The Zoologist, the Ibis, and the Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall from 1843 onwards.
[1] His collection of at least forty-five cases with 270 specimens, mostly from Cornwall, passed to his nephew Francis R Rodd, at Trebartha Hall, Launceston.