John Dodd (24 September 1717 – 9 February 1782) was an
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politician who sat in the
House of Commons
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between 1741 and 1782.
Dodd was the only son of Randolph (or Randall) Dodd of Chester and was born on 24 September 1717. He succeeded his father in 1721. He was educated at
Eton College
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from 1728 to 1732 and matriculated at
King's College, Cambridge
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in 1735.
Dodd was a close friend of
Horace Walpole
Horatio Walpole (), 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), better known as Horace Walpole, was an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian, and Whigs (British political party), Whig politician.
He had Strawb ...
, and was returned as
Whig Member of Parliament
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(MP) for
Reading
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in
1741
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January–March
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, and from 1755 to 1782. He became a Governor of the
Foundling Hospital
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in 1739, and his second wife Juliana was an inspector of wet nurses in Berkshire for the Hospital.
Dodd lived at
Swallowfield Park
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, near Reading. He married firstly Jane, the daughter of Henry Le Coq St. Leger of Shinfield, Berkshire, with whom he had 3 sons and a daughter and secondly Juliana, the daughter of Philip Jennings of Duddleston Hall, Shropshire, with whom he had a further son and 3 daughters. He died at
Swallowfield
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on 9 February 1782.
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1717 births
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