Pedigree (1652); Opinion touching the Antiquity, Power … and Proceedings of the High Courts of Parliament (1658); Treatise of Particular Estates [printed with Noy's works] (1677). Besides these, Sheppard's Touchstone, and Wentworth's Executors have been attributed to him.
Admitted 23 April, 1807.
Eldest son of the Rev. John Dodson, D.D., Rector of Hurstpierpont, where he was born 19 Jan. 1780. He graduated at Oxford in 1801, and received the degree of D.C.L. there in 1808, becoming in the same year Commissary to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster. In 1819 he entered Parliament for Rye. In 1834 he became Advocate-General and was knighted. He was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple 8 Nov. of the same year, and in 1835 was elected a Bencher. In 1841 he held the office of Treasurer He was made a Privy Councillor in 1852, and from that date till 1857 presided in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury and in the Court of Arches. He died in London 27 April, 1858. He was engaged in very many important ecclesiastical cases, of which he has left Reports; and he was the author of Reports of Cases in the High Court of Admiralty, 1811—22.
Admitted 31 August, 1754.
Only son of Joseph Dodson, Dissenting Minister, at Marlborough, Wiltshire, where he was born in September, 1732. He pursued the study of the law under the direction of his uncle, Sir Michael Foster (q.v.), and was called to the Bar 4 July, 1783, but before this he was made a Commissioner of Bankrupts by Lord Camden.
He published a new edition of Sir Michael Foster's book, entitled A Report of some Proceedings on the Commission for the Trial of the Rebels in the year 1746 … with Discourses upon Crown Law. He also wrote a translation of Isaiah, many papers in a work called Commentaries and Essays, and a memoir of the Rev. Hugh Farmer; but the work by which he is best known is the Life of his uncle. Sir Michael Foster, written originally for the Biographia Britannica, but published separately in 1811.
Admitted 15 January, 1730-1.
Eldest son of Henry Dodwell of Shottesbrooke, Berks. He was educated at Oxford, where he graduated 1726. He was called to the Bar 10 Feb. 1737-8, and to the Bench of the Inn 6 Feb. 1767. He owes his fame to the publication in 1742 of a remarkable tract, entitled Christianity not founded on Argument, round which a long controversy arose, in which many of the leading polemical writers of the day took part, some claiming it as a defence of, and others as an attack upon, Christianity. He is now generally regarded as a Deist. He was appointed Reader at the Inn in 1775, and elected Treasurer in 1778. He died in 1784.
