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 Prayer, Commandments, and Sacraments Explained,’ 4to, pp. 238. 15. ‘A Polemical Dictionary.’ 16. ‘A Philosophical and Theological Dictionary,’ in 44 nos. 17. ‘Life of Dr. Oliver Buckridge, Vicar of Bray.’ 18. ‘Dictionarium Etymologicum undecim Linguarum.’ 19. Many other minor manuscript treatises on historical and theological subjects. These are enumerated in the ‘Catholicon,’ iv. 120, v. 60.

He also edited John Goter's ‘Sincere Christian's Guide in the Choice of Religion,’ and the same writer's ‘Confutation of the Latitudinarian System.’

[Butler's Hist. Memoirs of the English Catholics, 3rd ed. iv. 451; Butler's Reminiscences, 4th ed. i. 319; Cat. of Printed Books in Brit. Mus.; Catholic Directory, 1853, p. 134; Catholic Miscellany, 1826, vi. 250, 328, 405; Catholicon, iii. 128, iv. 120, 161, 275, v. 60 (articles by Dr. John Kirk); Chambers's Biog. Illustr. of Worcestershire, p. 591; Dublin Review, vi. 395; Foley's Records, ii. 57, 59, iv. 714 n. vii. pt. i. p. 384; Gent. Mag. ccxii. 509; Hardwick's Preston, p. 664; Hist. MSS. Comm. Rep. i. 90, iii. 233, 234, 340, v. pp. xii, 465–9, 476; Lowndes's Bibl. Man. (Bohn), p. 654; Mackintosh's Miscellaneous Works, 1851, pp. 304 n. 324 n.; Notes and Queries, 1st ser. ii. 347, 451, iii. 496, iv. 11; Panzani's Memoirs, preface; Sutton's Lancashire Authors, p. 127; Whittle's Preston, ii. 207.] 

DODD, DANIEL (fl. 1760–1790), painter, was a member of the Free Society of Artists, and first appears as an exhibitor at Spring Gardens in 1761. He continued to contribute many works to the same exhibition up to 1780. He resided first at Old Ford, near Bow, but subsequently moved into London. His works were principally portraits in crayons on a small scale, and sometimes in oil. Among them may be mentioned a copy in crayons of ‘Garrick between Tragedy and Comedy,’ portraits of Mr. Darley, Mr. Fielding, Mrs. Rudd, and of Nathan Potts of the ‘Robin Hood’ Society (engraved in mezzotint by Butler Clowes). He also etched a few portraits, one being a portrait of Leveridge the actor, after Frye. Buckhorse the pugilist was a favourite subject of his; besides painting his portrait, he engraved it in mezzotint himself. He designed illustrations for Harrison's ‘Novelists,’ Raymond's ‘History of England,’ and similar publications. He also drew scenes of fashionable life, crowded with figures, with some success, such as ‘A View of the Ball at St. James's on Her Majesty's Birthnight’ (engraved by Tukey), ‘A View of the Exhibition of the Royal Academy at Somerset House’ (engraved by Angus), ‘The Royal Procession to St. Paul's,’ ‘The Exhibition of Copley's Picture of the Death of Lord Chatham at the Exhibition Room in Spring Gardens’ (engraved by Angus), &c. He had a son and a daughter, who were both artists, and exhibited with the Free Society of Artists in 1768 and the following years.

[Redgrave's Dict. of Artists; Graves's Dict. of Artists, 1760–1880; Catalogues of the Free Society of Artists; Bromley's Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits.] 

DODD, GEORGE (1783–1827), engineer, son of Ralph Dodd [q. v.], was educated by his father as a civil engineer and architect, practising with considerable distinction. He is stated to have been the projector and designer of Waterloo Bridge. This error arises from the fact of his being the resident engineer under John Rennie, to whose genius this work is entirely due. Dodd was so ‘imprudent as to resign this situation.’ He is said to have been the first projector of steamboats on the Thames, but his connection with the scheme was soon broken off, and he was much depressed by this disappointment, and by the want of encouragement for a plan for extinguishing fires at sea. He took to drink and was found in a state of complete destitution in the streets in September 1827. At his own request he was committed to the compter, where he refused to take medicine and died of exhaustion on 25 Sept. 1827. He left a son and daughter.

[Blackie's Popular Encyclopædia, 1841; Elihu Rich's Cyclopædia of Biography, 1854; Weale's London and its Vicinity; Gent. Mag. for 1827, ii. 468.] 

DODD, GEORGE (1808–1881), miscellaneous writer, was born in 1808, and died on 21 Jan. 1881. During nearly half a century he was known as an industrious and painstaking writer. An aptitude for presenting statistics in an attractive form made him a useful assistant to Charles Knight. He wrote numerous articles on industrial art in the ‘Penny Cyclopædia,’ the ‘English Cyclopædia,’ and supplements. He edited and wrote largely in the ‘Cyclopædia of the Industry of all Nations,’ 1851. He contributed to the ‘Penny Magazine,’ to ‘London,’ ‘The Land we live in,’ and to several other of Mr. Knight's serial publications. Some of his papers were collected and published in volumes, under the titles of ‘Days at the Factories,’ 12mo, London, 1843, of which one series only appeared, and ‘Curiosities of Industry,’ 8vo, London, 1852. For Knight's ‘Weekly Volumes’ he furnished an account of ‘The Textile Manufactures of Great Britain (British Manufactures. Chemical.—Metals.