Richard Roderick (baptized 1710, died 20 July 1756) was a British editor and poet.
A native of Cambridgeshire, Roderick was admitted pensioner of Queens' College, Cambridge, on 20 December 1728, and graduated B.A.
On 19 January 1743 he was admitted to a fellowship at Magdalene College, Cambridge, probably through the influence of Edward Abbot, master of Magdalene College (1740-6), who was his cousin.
Roderick was the intimate friend and coadjutor of Thomas Edwards in the latter's Canons of Criticism.
The Shepherd's Farewell to his Love, from Metastasio, and the riddles that follow, which are inserted in Robert Dodsley's Collection of Poetry (ed.