Bode at­tend­ed Eton, the Char­ter House, and Christ Church, Ox­ford Un­i­ver­si­ty, where he won the Hert­ford Schol­ar­ship in 1835, and grad­u­at­ed with his BA in 1837 (fol­lowed by his MA). He took Ho­ly Or­ders in 1841; be­came Rec­tor of West­well, Ox­ford­shire, in 1847; then of Cas­tle Camps, Cam­bridge­shire, in 1860. He de­liv­ered his Bamp­ton Lec­tures in 1855, and was for a time tu­tor and Class­ic­al Ex­am­in­er at his col­lege. His works in­clude:

• Ballads from Her­o­do­tus, 1853
• Short Oc­ca­sion­al Poe­ms (Lon­don: Long­mans, 1858)
• Hymns from the Gos­pel of the Day for Each Sun­day and Fes­tiv­als of Our Lord, 1860

• Bailey, pp. 436-37
• Frost, p. 537
• Nutter, p. 392

1. God of Hea­ven, En­throned in Might
2. O Je­sus, I Have Prom­ised
3. Spirit of Truth, In­dwell­ing Light