William Dodd
John Russell (died 1806) · Public domain
- Born
- 1729 · Bourne.
- Died
- 1777 · Tyburn.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Occupation
- writer · missionary · cleric
- Education
- Clare College
- Languages
- English
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William Dodd studied at Clare College. The recorded working language is English.
A portrait from the Welsh Portrait Collection at the National Library of Wales. Depicted person: William Dodd – English Anglican clergyman and forger (1729-1777)
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- 1.8. 367–368.
- 2.Dodd, William.
- 3.Dobson, Jessie. John Hunter and the Unfortunate Doctor Dodd. JStor. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 369–78. 1955.
- 4.The Newgate Calendar, ed. by Andrew Knapp & William Baldwin, 4 vols. (London: J. Robins, 1828), 3: 50-62
- 5.Dr William Dodd. Newgate Calendar.
- 6.William Dodd. The Proceedings of The Old Bailey.
- 7.Anonymous. (1777). Thoughts of a citizen of London on the conduct of Dr. Dodd: In his life and death. With remarks on the several petitions presented in his favour; the arguments of the court of common council of the city of London on the occasion considered; and some queries addressed to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor ... With reflexions on some passages of the Ordinary of Newgate's account of Dr. Dodd's conversation in Newgate, and going to execution. Shewing that the dangerous and hurtful doctrine, of Christians who have past their whole lives in wickedness being saved at the last hour ... has no foundation either in the nature of things, or the scriptures. W. Owen, at Temple-Bar. Retrieved from https://books.google.ch/books?id=EPiD0AEACAAJ
- 8.Barker, A. D. (1983). Samuel Johnson and the campaign to save William Dodd.
- 9.The Execution of the Unfortunate Dr. Dodd. The Street Lore of Bath. 1893.
- 10.William Dodd, the Macaroni Parson, by Ciaran Conliffe. HeadStuff. 16 November 2015.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 3
- Boswell, James, Life of Johnson, 1777 passim, for more information on Johnson's work in behalf of Dodd. (and several other editions with different ISBNs, as well as various public domain editions)
- Brack, O. M., editor. The Macaroni Parson and the Concentrated Mind: Samuel Johnson's Writings for the Reverend William Dodd. Tucson: Chax Press, 2004
- Howson, Gerald, The Macaroni Parson: A Life of the Unfortunate Dr. Dodd. London, Hutchinson, 1973 .
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