Born in Marylebone.1,2,3

From Inner Temple Admissions Database :-
"Second son of Robert Rodger"

Baptised in St Pancras Old Church.3

From the Parish Register :-
"23 / John Pickersgill / Robert & Sophia / Rodger / Gloucester Place Portman Place / Gentleman / 12 February 1851 Thomas Dale"

Married Maria Louisa Charlotte TYSER in Tonbridge, Hildenborough, St John's.14,15,16

From the Pall Mall Gazette :-
"RODGER - TYSER - At Hildenborough, Kent, Mr. J. P. Rodger, to Maria L. C., daughter of Mr. G. D. Tyser, of Hollenden Park, Hildenborough, Nov. 28"

From the London Daily News :-
"RODGER-TYSER - November 28, at t John's Hildenborough, Kent, J. P. Rodger, Esq., son of R. Rodger, Esq., of Hadlow Castle, Kent, to Maria Louisa Charlotte, daughter of G. D. Tyser Esq., of Hollenden-park, Hildenborough"

Career in Inner Temple.2

Admitted

Birth of daughter Ethel RODGER in Marylebone.1,12,13

Career.2

Called to the Bar

Occupation Barrister at Law not practising.1

Recorded in census in Kensington, St John Paddington (Gloucester Square, 19).1

Head of household - George Dorman Tyser
Annotated as "Son in law"

Knighted.5

Governor & CinC Gold Coast Colony 1903-10
Award - KCMG

Buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.11

Probate in London.9

of Sir John Pickersgill Rodger K.C.M.G. of Government Houses Accra Gold Coast and of 10 Clarges Street
Executor - Dame Marie Louise Charlotte Rodger widow
Effects- GBP 9,122 11s. 1d.

Died in St George Hanover Square (Clarges Street, 10).7,8,9,10

From the Aberdeen Press and Journal :-
"DEATH OF SIR JOHN R. RODGER
The "Times" regrets to announce the death of Sir John Pickersgill Rodger, Governor of the Gold Coast, which took place in London yesterday, four days after his arrival from West Africa. He was 59 years of age"

From the Times :-
"Sir J. Pickersgill Rodger.
We regret to announce the death of Sir John Pickersgill Rodger, K.C.M.G., Governor of the Gold Coast, which took place at 10, Larges-street, London, yesterday, four days after his arrival from West Africa.
He was born in 1851, and received his education at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. In 1873 he entered the Inner Temple, but five years later was appointed Chief Magistrate and Commissioner of Lands in Selangor, and Perak successively, and in 193 was appointed Governor of the Gold Coast. In West Africa he showed himself an energetic advocate of public improvements in sanitation and transportation. Among the enterprises due to his activities were the construction of a harbour and waterworks at Accra and of a railway running thence into the cocoa district in the interior"

Oxford University Alumni.4

"RODGER, John Pickersgill, 2s. Robert, of London, aem. Christ Church, matric. 8 June, 1870, aged 19; of Hadlow Castle, Twickenham, bar.-at-law, Inner Temple, 1877."

Who was Who.6