Roderic Dunkerley
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Roderic Dunkerley born in Ealing
Ealing
Ealing is a suburban area of west London, England and the administrative centre of the London Borough of Ealing. It is located west of Charing Cross and around from the City of London. It is one of the major metropolitan centres identified in the London Plan. It was historically a rural village...

, West London
London
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, son of William Arthur Dunkerley (John Oxenham
John Oxenham
William Arthur Dunkerley was a prolific English journalist, novelist and poet. He was born in Manchester, spent a short time after his marriage in America before moving to Ealing, west London, where he served as dea­con and teach­er at the Ealing Con­gre­ga­tion­al Church from the 1880s, and he...

). The novelist Elsie J. Oxenham
Elsie J. Oxenham
Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley , was an English girls' story writer, who took the name Oxenham as her pseudonym when her first book, Goblin Island, was published in 1907. Her Abbey Series of 38 titles are her best-known and best-loved books...

 was his sister, as was Erica Oxenham the biographer of their father, who gives brief details of his early life within the pages of those biographies .

Books

  • The Great Awakening (1915)
  • The Arm Of God (1916)
  • Postman's Knock (1918)
  • The Proclamation (1920)
  • The Unwritten Gospel (1925)
  • First Prayers (1929)
  • The Pageant Of The King's Children (1930) (with his father, John Oxenham
    John Oxenham
    William Arthur Dunkerley was a prolific English journalist, novelist and poet. He was born in Manchester, spent a short time after his marriage in America before moving to Ealing, west London, where he served as dea­con and teach­er at the Ealing Con­gre­ga­tion­al Church from the 1880s, and he...

    )
  • Treasure Trove (1948)
  • The Secret Moment (1949)
  • The Hope Of Jesus (1953)
  • At The House Of The Interpreter (1956)
  • Beyond The Gospels (1957)
  • Prayer Time In The Junior School (1958) (with his son, Gregor Hamilton Dunkerley)
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