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=== Personal life ===
Roddy was born [[3 January]] [[1929]] in [[Old Hunstanton]], [[Norfolk]], and died [[20 December]] [[2000]] in London, aged 71. H. His father [[Brigadier]] John Gradidge, was posted in [[India]] at the time of his son's birth, who was then brought up amidst the splendours of the [[British Raj]]. He was sent off to Public School at [[Stowe School|Stowe]] and from there and after 2 years [[National Service]] in the [[Palestine]], he moved to London and the [[Architectural Association]], where he completed his training as an architect and was elected an Associate of the [[Royal Institute of British Architects]] ([[ARIBA]]). He remained in London practising as an architect and writer for most of his life, where he was a prominent figure in social and architectural circles in the last half of the 20th Century. Roddy was an advocate of rational dress, a movement more usually associated with modernists, and had suits tailored in fine cloth that featured jackets and kilts; for much of his life he wore his hair uncut in a plait, for the reason that cutting it was unecessary and wasteful. He was long-time member of the congregation of the Anglo-Catholic St Mary’s, Bourne Street,
== Legacy ==
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