RODOSTO 



ROEHAMPTON 



Rodosto OR TEKIR DAOH. Town 

 and port on the Sea of Marmora, 

 anciently known first as Bisanthe, 

 and then as Rhaedestum. It is 

 about 80 m. W. of Constantinople, 

 has a good roadstead, and does a 

 considerable shipping trade in 

 grain, canary seed, fruit, vegetables, 

 silk cocoons, and silkworm eggs. 

 Pop. about 42,000. 



Rodrigues. Island of the In- 

 dian Ocean, one of the Mascarene 

 group. It is 320 m. E.N.E. of Mau- 

 ritius, of which it is a dependency, 

 and is 18 m. in length and 7 m. in 

 width, with an area of 40 sq. m. Of 

 volcanic origin, and mountainous, 

 its highest point is 1,400 ft. in alt. 

 The soil is fertile and the climate 

 healthy. The chief town and port is 

 Mathurin, with a good harbour on 

 the N. coast. There are two govt. 

 schools. Rodrigues became British 

 in 1814. It is a station of the 

 Eastern Telegraph Co., whence the 

 cable runs to Cocos-Keeling I. 

 (q.v.). Pop. 6,000. 



Roe, RICHARD. Imaginary name 

 used in English legal procedure. 



Roe, SIR THOMAS (c. 1581-1644). 

 English explorer and ambassador. 

 Born at Low Leyton, near Wan- 

 stead, Essex, 

 and educated 

 at Magdalen 

 College, Ox- 

 ford, and prob- 

 ably in France, 

 he received an 

 appoint m e n t 

 at court in the 

 last year of 

 Queen Eliza- 

 beth's reign. 

 He was knighted in 1605. In 1610 

 Prince Henry fitted him out for a 

 voyage of discovery to S. America, 

 and he sailed up the Amazon and 

 to the Orinoco. He made two 

 other voyages to the same quarter 

 in quest of gold. 



Roe was M.P. for Tamworth, 

 1614, and the next year was sent 

 as ambassador to the court of the 

 Mogul, where he obtained privileges 

 for the English merchants which 

 established the foundations of 

 British supremacy in India. He 

 was back in London in the autumn 

 of 1619. Elected M.P. for Ciren- 

 cester in 1621, he was sent in the 

 same year as ambassador to Con- 

 stantinople, where he rendered his 

 country important services before 

 returning to England in 1628. 

 From 1638 to 1642 he was much on 

 the Continent, taking part in the 

 diplomatic negotiations that ac- 

 companied the Thirty Years' War. 

 In 1640 he was made a member of 

 the privy council, and returned to 

 Parliament as member for Oxford 

 University. He died at Bath, 

 Nov. 6, 1644, and was buried at 



Sir Thomas Roe, 1 

 English explorer 



Woodford, in Essex. Part of his 

 journal as ambassador to the 

 Mogul was published by Purchas, 

 1625, and the whole was issued by,' 

 the Hakluyt Society, 1899, while a 

 number of his letters were issued 

 by the Camden Society, 1860. 



Roebuck, JOHN ARTHUR (1801- 

 79). British politician. Born at 

 Madras, Dec. 28, 1801, he was edu- 

 cated in Can- 

 ada. In 1831, 

 having settled 

 in England, 

 he became a 

 barrister, and 

 in 1832 en- 

 tered Parlia- 

 ment as M.P. 

 for Bath. In 

 the House of John Roebuck, 

 Commons he British politician 

 spoke frequently, and made his 

 mark as a Radical and a critic of 

 the government. In 1849 he was 

 returned for Sheffield, and, except 

 for the period 1868-74, he sat for 

 that town until his death, Nov. 30, 

 1879. Roebuck was chairman of 

 the committee appointed at his 

 instigation to inquire into the mis- 

 management of the Crimean War. 

 In foreign politics he did not always 

 follow the usual Radical attitude ; 

 for instance, he supported the 

 South in the American Civil War 

 and Lord Beaconsfield in his 

 Eastern policy. Intimate with 

 Bentham and Mill, he wrote books 

 on the colonies and the Whig 

 ministry, and an Autobiography, 

 published 1897. 



Roedeer (Capreolus capraea). 

 Small species of deer. It stands 

 about 26 ins. high at the shoulder, 

 and the colour of the pelt is reddish 

 in summer and 

 olive brown in 

 winter, with a 

 large white patch 

 on the rump. The 

 antlers are about 

 8 ins. long, and 

 rise almost vertic- 

 ally from the 

 head, usually with 

 three short tines. 

 The head is short 

 and the ears 

 rather large in 

 proportion. 



The roedeer oc- 

 curs throughout 

 jn o s t parts of 

 Europe, and is 

 indigenous in 

 Great Britain. It 

 occurs in many of 

 the more secluded 

 parts of the High- 

 lands of Scotland, 

 and is said to be 

 still found in 

 Cumberland. 



Near Milton Abbas, in Dorsetshire, 

 there is a considerable colony, and 

 a few specimens are to be found 

 in other districts. Roedeer fre- 

 quent woods, visiting their feeding 

 grounds in the open only in the 

 early morning and evening. They 

 are often troublesome in the neigh- 

 bourhood of farms, and they do 

 great damage in parks by gnawing 

 the bark of the trees. See Deer. 



Roehampton. Village and 

 parish of Surrey, England. On the 

 W. of Putney Heath, it once 

 formed part of Putney and Mort- 

 lake Park, of which, in Charles It's 

 time, the 2nd earl of Portland was 

 lord keeper, and built, in addition 

 to a mansion, Roehampton Park, 

 the private chapel of which forms 

 part of the parish church of Holy 

 Trinity. The property passed by 

 purchase to Christiana, countess of 

 Devonshire, who held here a kind 

 of salon, at which Thomas Hobbes 

 was a familiar figure. Joshua Van- 

 neck, afterwards Baron Hunting- 

 field, pulled down the mansion and 

 built Roehampton Grove. On part 

 of the park was erected the convent 

 of the Sacred Heart. Other build- 

 ings of note include Manresa House, 

 a Jesuit college connected with 

 S. Joseph's B.C. church ; Dover 

 House, Downshire House, Roe- 

 hampton House, and, in Roehamp- 

 ton Lane, Queen Mary's Hospital, 

 where soldiers maimed in the 

 Great War are provided with arti- 

 ficial limbs and trained in handi- 

 crafts. In 1915-19 over 40,000 

 artificial limbs were supplied. Dur- 

 ing the Great War Roehampton 

 was a headquarters for training of 

 the dirigible balloon section of the 

 R.A.F. See Artificial Limb. 



Roedeer. 



Male specimen of the small deer that occurs 

 in some parts o! Britain 



W. S. Berridgc. F.Z.S. 



