Do'davah (Heb. only in the prolonged form Do- dava'hu, Jimnin v. r. nmi^, hdovtd of Jehovah; Sept Atodia v. r. 'O^ia, Tulg. Dodan), an inhabitant of Mareshah, and &ther of the Eliezer who predicted the wreck of Jehoshaphat*s fleet auxiliary to Ahaziah (2 Chron. xx, 87). B.C. ante 895. In the Jewish traditions Dodavah is the putative son of Jehoshaphat, who was (in reality) his uncle (Jerome, Qu. Heb^ ad loc). Dodd, Charles, an English Romanist divine, whose real name is said to have been Richard Tootle. He resided at Harvington, Worcestershire, where he died about 1745. He published a Church Hittonf of England from 1500 to 1688, chiefy with regard to Cath- dicks (Brussels, 1787, eight parts, hi 8 vols. fol.). It was printed in England, though dated at Brussels. It was sharply criticised by Constable, a Jesuit, in 1740, and Dodd replied as sharply (1742). Berington, in his Memoirs of Gregorio Pantanij speaks of Dodd as the author of other works " against the insidious con- duct, as he deemed it, of the Jesuits, in their transac- tions with the secular clergy." His Church History was for a long time very scarce and dear, but a new edition was undertaken in 1889 by the Rev. M. A. Tier- ney, of which 6 vob. 8vo have appeared (1889-1843). Dodd, William, LL.D., an unworthy clergyman of the Church of En^and, was bom in 1729, at Bourn, Lincolnshire, and was admitted a sizar of Clare Hall, Cambridge, in 1745. In 1758 he was ordained, and settled in London ; and from tills time he continued to
obtain a sncoession of small prefiBrments in th« holding, in the latter part of his life, two London, with a rectory and vicara^ in the and possessing an ecclesiastical inoofiie of X800 a jvr He was one of the most popular preactet cf & day; was one of the king's chaplains ; aoid in 176 va inlnsted with the education of Pliilip Stanlwpe, tks. wards earl of Chesterfield. In 1775 he waa dcprio: of his king's chaplaincy for having offered to the vi of chancellor Apsley a bribe of £9000 if she vnU » cure him the living of St. Geoi;ge'a, Hanover Sqsa. He preached his last semum Feb. 2, 1777; twe ^ after he forged a bond for £4200 on Lord Choterfa)^ was arrested, tried, and convicted Feb. M, and e». cuted June 27. Strenuous efforts were made bf ns of the highest rank to save him, but witfaoet lAe He was a man of superficial learning, bat of gntf ^ erary industry. B«idee minor pieoea in pros wd verse, he published An Ekgg an ike Death efthe Fnm of Wales (1751, 4to) :— Thoughts om iks ghriem i^^i amg of our Lord Jesus Christy a poetical eesay (bk 4to) :— Sermons on the Parables assd Mirmdts (lT3d4 vols. %xo)i—AceomU of the Rise, Prvgress^ ele^ ^i Magdalen Charitg (1769, 8vo) i—A famOiar Esftao^ tion of the poetical Works ofMiUxm G762, 12mo>*.~^ fiectMms an Death (1763, 12mo) i^-Comfkirt for AeJ/- JUeted (1764, 8vo) :—T%e Visitor (17C4, 2 vefa. Mo' : — a new edition of Lockers CommmipleKe hoak fc A B^ He (1766, 4to):--^ermoM on the Duties ef the Cnrf. transL from Massillon (1769, 8vo): — A Commaterfn the Btble^ 8 vols. foL (published in nnmben. am- menced in 1766, and completed in 1770. ^ In vdnfe give greater ^lat to this undertaking, k «ai a- nounced tliat lord Masham had pnaented him. «i& the HSS. of Mr. Locke, and that he had belp sbe fiv: the MSS. of lord Clarendon, Dr. Wateriand, aai octe celebrated men. The ability and sound jndgBMat «ik which, in the compilation of this woik, Dodd avsH himself of the labors of preoedin^^pmBMBtaton, Im- eign as well as British, have ren^^pi this a tot n- uable work." It was made tlieTesia of Dr. Cob « Commentargf without adequate acknowledgwri):— Sermons to gamg Men (1771, 8 toU. 12mo) :— 7fc/>^ quencg of capital PwMments imcanmstemt uith JuHe, sound PoUcg, and Region (1772, 8to): — Tls^i Prison, etc., wiUi Memoirs of kis Uft (puithiianTi See some interesting notices of Dodd'a attad «a V«c ley, and of Wesley's visits to him, in Weder'k ITim N. T. ed., iv, 246, 466 ; vi, 537.
Doddridge, Phiup, D.D., was bon ia Lrate June 26, 1702. His parents were ptons DSvmIa and took pains to educate their children vSe^mk^,. Philip was introduced by his mother to a kaioviii^ of the characters and scenes of the O. and N.T. Umt by means of some Dutch tiles that lined a eooff ^ their sitting-room. In his childhood be was ta^^ the rudiments of Greek and Latin, and ftm kbteiCk to his thirteenth year he attended the giaiawsi wTurf at Kingston-on-Thames. In 1715 he entered a prinfe school at St. Albans, kept by Mr. Nathanad W«i and here be gained the friendship of Samed Ckde. who aided him in many ways after the death of la &ther (1716). Doddridge repaid his benefiMtar W ^ devotion to study and to personal religion. Ia HI^ he received an offbr fh>m the ducbe» of BedIM, v^ lived in the neighborhood, and had heard «f U» ekv- acter and circumstances, to send liim to either ef^ two universities on condition of his beiMtaiwg t de- gyman in the Church of England. He dec&edik proposal. Mr. Clarke now undertook to bear tbe ex- pense of his education, and Doddridge gWh* •- braced the offbr by entering, in 1719i, the aeatar^ Kibworth, in Leicestershire, where he stofied v^ Dr. Jennings. In 1722 he was licensed to preadLOi was settled over the congregation at Kibwofdi m «•> cesser to Dr. Jennings. In 1729 l»e removed ta Btf- borough, to be aaaiatant to the veneimble ft. Saae-