''Dods Parliamentary Companion'' (formerly "Dod's Parliamentary Companion") is an annual politics

reference book A reference work is a document, such as a Academic publishing#Scholarly paper, paper, book or periodical literature, periodical (or their electronic publishing, electronic equivalents), to which one can refer for information. The information ...

published in the United Kingdom. It provides biographies and contact information on members of the

Houses of Parliament The Palace of Westminster is the meeting place of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and is located in London, England. It is commonly called the Houses of Parliament after the House of Commons and the House of Lords, the two legislative ch ...

and the

Civil Service The civil service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil service personnel hired rather than elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leadership. A civil service offic ...

. It was first published in 1832 by

Charles Dod Charles Roger Phipps Dod (or Dodd) (1793–1855) was an Irish journalist and writer, known for his reference works including the ''Parliamentary Companion''. , this work is still published as ''Dod's Parliamentary Companion''. Life The only son o ...

; and is now published by the firm of Dods. ''Dods'' also publishes on the web as Dods People (formerly "Dods Online").

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External links

Dods PeopleDods – publisher's website
1832 non-fiction books Book series introduced in the 1830s Yearbooks Parliament of the United Kingdom British biographical dictionaries Book series {{bio-dict-stub