DODD, Rev. Philip Stanhope (son of Rev. Richard Dodd, R. of Cowley, Middlesex, who d. 17 June 1811 aged 73). Educ. at Tunbridge and Magd. coll. Cam., B.A. 1796, M.A. 1799; fellow of his college; minister of Lambeth chapel, London 1803–7; R. of St. Mary at Hill, London 1807–12; R. of Aldrington, Sussex 1812 to death; R. of Penshurst, Kent 1819 to death; author of Hints to Freshmen at the University of Cambridge 1798, 3 ed. 1807 both anon.; A view of the evidence afforded by the life and ministry of St. Peter to the truth of the Christian revelation 1837. d. Penshurst rectory 22 March 1852 aged 77. G.M. xxxvii, 626–27 (1852).
DODDS, Rev. George Theophilus (son of Rev. Mr. Dodds, minister of free church of Lochee, a suburb of Dundee). b. Lochee 2 June 1850; ed. at Univ. of St. Andrews and New coll. Edin.; settled at Paris as a missionary of the McAll Protestant mission, Nov. 1877; went to the United States with Mr. Réveilland as a missionary 1880. d. Buisson Luzas, Salbrio near Orleans, France 9 Sep. 1882. bur. Passy cemetery near Paris 14 Sep. Life and work of Rev. G. T. Dodds, missionary, by H. Bonar, D.D. 1884, portrait.
DODDS, Isaac (2 son of Thomas Dodds, viewer of the Felling colliery, killed 21 Oct. 1805). b. Felling hall, Heworth, Durham 9 July 1801; apprenticed to George Stephenson at Newcastle; invented double action air pump 1830 and machine for weighing coals in carts 1832; engineer to the Horseley iron works, Staffordshire 1832–36; built the Star locomotive for the Liverpool and Manchester railway 1833; first maker of a locomotive to ascend an incline; inventor of plan of prevention of boiler explosions by using a plug of fusible metal, now in general use; locomotive superintendent North Midland railway 1835; invented the turn table, self-acting switches and spring buffers; took his son T. W. Dodds into partnership and recommenced the Holmes engine and railway works, Rotherham 1850, works closed 1866; introducer of steel rails. d. 13 Townend st. Nether Hallam near Sheffield 1 Nov. 1882. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxv, 308–14 (1884).
DODDS, James. b. Softlaw near Kelso 6 Feb. 1813; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; schoolmaster at Sandyknowe; articled to a lawyer at Melrose 1836–40; writer to the Signet; a solicitor in London 1846; lectured in London and Scotland; published The fifty years struggle of the Covenanters 1860; Thomas Chalmers, a biographical study 1870. d. Lochee, Dundee 12 Sep. 1874. Lays of the Covenanters by James Dodds, edited by Rev. James Dodds (1880) pp. 1–140.
DODDS, Rev. James. b. Annan, Dumfriesshire 1812; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; minister of the parish of Humbie, East Lothian 1841–43; minister of free church, Dunbar 1843 to death; author of A century of Scottish church history 1846; A memoir of Rev. Thomas Rosie 1862 and other books. d. Free church manse, Dunbar 3 Sep. 1885.
DODGSON, Venerable Charles (eld. son of Charles Dodgson of Hamilton, Lanarkshire). Matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 5 May 1818 aged 17, student 1818–28; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1824; P.C. of Daresbury, Cheshire 1827–43; R. of Croft near Darlington 20 Jany. 1843 to death; canon res. of Ripon cathedral 1852 to death; archdeacon of Richmond 1854 to death; chaplain to Abp. of Canterbury 1862 to death; published 12 charges, sermons and letters 1837–68. d. Croft rectory 21 June 1868.
DODGSON, George Haydock. b. Liverpool 16 Aug. 1811; apprenticed to George Stephenson the engineer; prepared plans for Whitby and Pickering railway; settled in London 1835 where he made drawings for architects; assoc. of New Soc. of Painters in water-colours 1842, member 1844–47; assoc. of Soc. of Painters in water-colours 1848, member 1852; exhibited 1 landscape at B.I. and 9 at Suffolk st. gallery 1835–41. d. 28 Clifton hill, St. John’s Wood, London 4 June 1880. I.L.N. lxxvi, 612 (1880), portrait.
DODSON, Sir John (eld. son of Rev. John Dodson, R. of Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, who d. July 1807). b. Hurstpierpoint 19 Jany. 1780; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch. and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1801, M.A. 1804, D.C.L. 1808; advocate of college of Doctors of law 3 Nov. 1808; commissary to dean and chapter of Westminster; M.P. for Rye, July 1819 to March 1823; advocate to Admiralty Court 11 March 1829; advocate general 18 Oct. 1834; knighted at St. James’s palace 29 Oct. 1834; barrister M.T. 8 Nov. 1834, bencher 1835; master of the Faculties, Nov. 1841; Vicar-general to the lord primate 1849; judge of Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Feb. 1852 to 9 Dec. 1857 when court was abolished; dean of the Arches court, Feb. 1852 to 9 Dec. 1857; P.C. 5 April 1852; published Reports of cases in the high court of admiralty 1811–22, 2 vols. 1815–28. d. 6 Seamore place, Mayfair, London 27 April 1858.
DODSWORTH, Rev. William (3 son of John Dodsworth of Carlton hall, Yorkshire). b. 1798; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; minister of Margaret st. chapel, Cavendish sq. London to 1837; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Regent’s park, London 1837 to Jany. 1851 when he joined Church of Rome; author of Discourses on the Lord’s Supper 1835; The Priest’s Companion in the visitation of the Sick 1843; Sermons in Advent 1849; Clarendon, a tale 3 vols. 1850, and about 25 other books. d. York terrace, Regent’s park 10 Dec. 1861.
DODWORTH, Thomas. b. Sheffield 1790; went to New York 1826; organised the “City Band” which became the National brass band and was first independent military band in New York. d. Morrisania, New York 30 April 1876.