Rhoades was born in
Clonmel,
County Tipperary and was educated at
Rugby School and
Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1864 and M.A. in 1867. He taught at
Haileybury College and
Sherborne School. Rhoades married Charlotte Elizabeth Lester, daughter of
Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Parkinson Lester, they had two sons and two daughters together. He married secondly Alice Hunt, daughter of John Hunt. ==Works==