DODSLEY. 351 DOE. DODS'LEY, KocKBT (1703-04). An English aiillmr ami i)ublisher. He was born near Mans- lielil, in Xoltingliam. llis father, who was a schoolmaster. aiiprenticeJ hiui to a stocking- weaver: but linding this employment disagree- ble, Dwlsley ran away, and was afterwards en gaged as footman. Wliile thus employed he began to write erses on the behavior of servants, pub- lishing, in 1732, a volume entitled The Muse in Liter;/, or the Footmaiis lliscelluiiy. His next production — The Toil .v/io/<, a dramatic piece — was i>erformed in 1735 at Coveiit Garden Theatre with great success. With the profits from his books and plaj-, and with the aid of Pope, Dods- ley began business as a bookseller, in which trade he was very successful. In 1737 his King and the ililler of Mansfield was brought out at Drury Lane, and met with an enthusiastic reception. This was followed by /Sir John Cockle at Court, The Blind Beggar of Belknal Green, and /I'cj; et Foiitifcx, which were republished in a collected edition of his dramatic works with the title ot Trifles (174SI. His dramatic career closed with a tragedy called Cleonc (1758), acted at Covent Garden with extraordinary success, ileantime, he was conducting his business with great ability and spirit. In 1738 he bought Johnson's London for ten guineas. He became the publisher of other famous authors — Pope, Young, Walpole, and Goldsmith. Though he carried through nianj- other literary schemes, he is chietly remembered now on account of his .s'e/ec< Collection of Old I'tays (12 vols., 1744), of which there have bcftn four editions, the last being edited by Hazlitt (15 vols., 1874-76). Another valuable publica- tion was Collection of Poems by Several Hands (4 vols., 1784-49). Consult: Knight. Shadows of the Old Booksellers (London, 186o). DOD'SON. In George Eliofs J/i7( on the Floss, the name of three prim but admirable old aunts, who judge everything by the standard of their amusing family peculiarities. DODSON, J.iMES ( ?-1757). An English math- ematician, the great-grandfather of A. De Mor- gan. The date of his birth is unknowii, nor is anything known of his early life. It is, how- ever, certain that he was over forty-seven years of age at the time of his death. He was a fellow of file Koyal .Society (1755) and master of the Royal Mathematical School, Christ's Hospital (1755). Dodson is known chiefly for his Aii(i- Logarithmic Canon (1742), the manuscript of which was probably due to Warner and Pell (about 1630-40). and for The Mathematical Mis- cellany. The latter was published in three vol- umes (1747-55), and was devoted to the consid- eration of problems. Besides these works, he published the Calculator (1747), a collection of small tables; ther .lcco«Hfi;i? (1750). a work on bookkeeping: a new edition of Wingate's Arilh- melic (1751) ; and he joined with Mountaine in a geographical work published (1758) after his death, lie also interested himself in life insur- ance and .innuities. DODSON, .loiix E. (1857 — ). A comedian, born in England, who came to the United States with the Kendals in 1889 and is especially known in 'character' parts. He made his di'but in 1877 at Jlanchester with .J. L. Toole in The Spelling Bee. Later he played for several seasons at Dub- lin and in different Scottish and English cities, supporting, among other 'stars,' Charles Math- ews, Bariy Sullivan, Joseph JelTerson, and J. K. Einmett. One of his creations was t'arra- way Bones in Turned Vp. After he joined the Kendals' company he appeared in A Hcrap of Paper, The Ironmaster, The Squire, The Second Mrs. Tanqucray, Still Waters Ilun Deep, and other plays. In IS94 he became a member of Charles Froliman's company, playing in The Masqucraders, John-a-Dreuins. etc. In 1898 he made a hit as old John Weathersby in Gillette's farce. Because She Lorcd Ilim So. DODSON AND FOGG. A rascally firm of legal advisers in Dickens's Pickwick Papers. They inveigle Jlrs. Bardell into the famous brcach-of-promise suit, "Bardell vs. Pickwick,' and when about to lo.se their fees by the defend- ant's firmness., land their client in jail, whence she is released by the sympathetic Mr. Pickwick, who jjays the costs. DOD'WELI,, Edwakd (1767-1832). An Eng- lish architologist. He graduated at Trinity Col- lege, Cambridge, in 1800, and devoted his life to archiEological research in Greece and Rome. He discovered many valuable antiquities in Attica and in the vicinity of Corinth, and procured the well-known Dodwell Vase, now in the JIunich Glyptothek. Among his publications are: .1 Classical and Topographical Tour Through Greece (1819) ;. 1 ieirs in Greece from Drawings by Edicard Dodicell (1821) ; and Views and De- scriptions of Cyclopean and Pelasgic Remaitis in Italy and Greece (1834). DOD'WELI,, Henet (1641-1711). An Eng- lish historian and theologian. He was bom in Dublin, where he studied at Trinity College, in which for some years he held a fellowshi]). In IGSS he was elected Camden professor of history at Oxford, but in 1691 he was deprived of his professorship for refusing to take the oath of al- legiance to William and Mary, and afterwards devoted himself to literary pursuits. As a theo- logian, he attracted much attention by his advo- cacy of various eccentric theories and was in- volved in several animated controversies. His learning as a chronologist was praised by Gibbon, who, however, berates him for his method and style. Among his publications are: Book of Schism: Annates Thucydideani (1696); Annates Velleiani, Quintiliani (1698) ; An Account of the Lesser Geographers (1698-1712): De Cyclis (1702) : a treatise Against Occasional Commu- nion (1705) ; and Parwnesis to Foreigners Con- cerning the Late English Schism (1704). DOE, Joiix. The assumed name of the fic- titious plaintiff in the common-law action of ejectment (q.v. ), hence, in any other action in which the name of the real plaintiff is withheld. Where a fictitious name is desired for a defendant Richard Roe is commonly employed. These names are of great antiquity and nothing is known of their origin. It is probable, however, that .Tohn Doe was the real name of a clerk or other minor official of the Court of King's Bench in which the action of ejectment originated, and who lent himself regularly to the fiction upon which the action was based. In some of the .merican States other names were substituted for John Doe. as ".Jackson' in Xew York and "Den' in New Jersey. But .John Doe continues to be a popular and convenient anon^nn for the concealment of personal identity.
