Wigan Album

I haven’t noticed any postings with regard to Harry Rhoden, a Wigan born man, so I took sections of the following, from his obituary, as I thought it appropriate to recognise high achievements of people born in Wigan on wigan world.
In 1911 Census, Harry was living at 10 Vine Street, Wigan aged 4, his father was a ‘machine attendant at the Iron Works’, involved in coke production, and was a Welshman born in Flintshire.
Harry was educated at the local state school and later at Wigan Technical College. He served an apprenticeship at the Wigan Coal & Iron Company, and was awarded a Whitworth Scholarship in 1927 which enabled him to return to the college full time and work for a London B.Sc. external, which he obtained with first class honours.
The Whitworth Scholarship enabled him to enter St.John’s, Cambridge University and his long, loyal association with the College began from that date.
From St.John's he obtained a first class in the Mechanical Sciences Tripos in 1930. Students who studied at St John’s in the 40’s, 50’s, 60’s were taught by the best supervisors then in Cambridge, personally selected by Rhoden.
Cambridge is a great university and St. John’s, a great college because of the calibre of men like Harry Rhoden.
His achievements lie not so much in published work but in the shaping of the careers of the hundreds of young men who came to John's because it offered the best in engineering teaching, under the quiet influence of one of the kindest of men.
He was a soccer player of no mean ability in his younger days and followed several sports, soccer, rugby league and cricket-in later years.
Rhoden loved his life in Cambridge, his home and family, his college and his department, and was, as a result, a happy man.
He was proud of his Lancastrian origin, listening with pleasure each year at the Commemoration Service for the reference to the benefactor from Wigan.
Without being over sentimental I think we can say Harry was a great man, an achiever.