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DOD and in the same year he accepted an invitation to the pastoral charge of a large church in Northampton. He was thus transferred to a more ample and congenial sphere of action for his rare gifts, and for the application of those stores of knowledge and experience which he had hitherto been accumulating. His ministry met with great acceptance in Northampton, and the church under his care was numerous and flourishing. His discourses were models of pulpit eloquence, fitted equally for popular instruction and popular impression; and they derived every advantage from the fervour of his manner, the dignity, sanctity, and loveliness of his character, and the high estimation in which he was held by the wise and good of all ranks and classes. The abundance of his pastoral labours, private as well as public; the catholicity of his spirit; the wisdom with which he devised, and the zeal with which he prosecuted every scheme which promised to advance the welfare of mankind; must likewise be mentioned with honour in any notice of him, however brief. His reputation as a tutor drew large numbers of pupils to his academy. It attracted several ingenuous youths from Scotland and Holland; some of them licentiates of the Scottish church, who resorted to it to perfect their preparation for parochial charges in their native country. The writings of the master of the school contributed, in the meantime, to enhance and extend his fame; and in 1736 the two colleges in the university of Aberdeen conferred on him the honorary degree of doctor in divinity. Dr. Doddridge died on the 26th October, 1751, in the fiftieth year of his age. In travelling to St. Albans in the December of the previous year, to preach the funeral sermon of his friend Dr. Clarke, he caught a severe cold, which ultimately developed itself in fatal pulmonary affection. He died at Lisbon, whither his medical advisers had recommended him to go, in the hope that the voyage and the change of climate might be the means of preserving his valuable life; and was interred in the burying-ground of the British factory there. A handsome monument was erected to his memory in the meeting-house at Northampton, by the church over which he had presided for twenty-one years. The numerous works from Dr. Doddridge's pen are monuments of his genius, learning, and piety. Among the principal of them may be named—"The Family Expositor;" "Theological Lectures;" "The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul;" "Sermons on Regeneration;" "Sermons on the Education of Children;" and "The Life of Colonel James Gardiner." Many of them have been often reprinted; their circulation, both at home and abroad, has been great, and their usefulness incalculable. Several of them have been translated into Dutch, German. &c.—W. M.  DÖDERLEIN,, a German author, was born January 20th, 1745, at Windsheim in Franconia. He studied at Altdorf, was ordained deacon in his twenty-second year, and was soon after named minister of the parish church of Windsheim. He now began his literary activity, which procured for him in 1772 the chair of theology at Altdorf, and ten years after, the same at the university of Jena, at which latter place he died, September 2nd, 1792. He wrote a considerable number of critical and theological works, but the only one for which he is at present known is his "Curæ criticæ et exegeticæ in quædam Veteris Testamenti oracula," Altdorf, 1770, which passed through several editions.—F. M.  DÖDERLEIN,, a distinguished German philologist, was born at Jena, 19th December, 1791, and devoted himself to the study of the classic languages in the universities of Munich, under Thiersch; Heidelberg, under Creuzer and Voss; Erlangen and Berlin, under F. A. Wolf, Bockh, and Buttmann. In 1815 he was appointed professor in the academy of Berne, and in 1819 was called to Erlangen as head-master of the gymnasium and professor of ancient literature. His principal works are his Latin "Synonyms and Etymologies;" his "Handbuch der lateinischen Synonymik;" his "Tacitus;" and his "Homeric Glossary." He died 9th November, 1863.—K. E.  DODINGTON,, Lord Melcombe, survives as the most shamelessly corrupt and venal politician of a corrupt and venal age. He was born in 1692, the son of an apothecary at Carlisle, according to Walpole; of an Irish fortune-hunter, according to others. In any case, his father owed all his social position to a marriage with a Miss Dodington of Dorsetshire, through whom Lord Melcombe inherited an uncle's estate of Eastberry in that county, assuming at the same time the name of Dodington. He entered the house of commons as M.P. for Winchelsea, and was soon afterwards sent as envoy-extraordinary to Spain, signing the treaty of Madrid, and remaining there until 1717. In private he was distinguished by a coarse ostentation, at his magnificent seat of Eastberry, and at his villa of La Trappe at Hammersmith. He patronized Thomson and Young, but at the same time made a favourite of the venal Ralph. Thomson inscribed the first edition of his Summer to the owner of Eastberry, in a dedication so fulsome that the poet was ashamed of it, and it did not appear in subsequent editions. Young inscribed to him one of the satires on the Love of Fame, and a similar honour was done him by Henry Fielding in the case of one of his poetical brochures. But the memory of Dodington could have been kept alive as little by these incidents as by the foppery which made Lord Chesterfield say of him, "With submission to my Lord Rochester, God made Dodington the coxcomb he is—mere human means could never bring it about." It is as a political "rat" that Dodington claims a niche in biography. He deserted Sir Robert Walpole to fawn upon the former enemies of both just at the nick of time; and a poetical epistle which he had addressed to Sir Robert on his birthday was resuscitated many years afterwards, and by a slight change of names, &c., made available in his courtship of Lord Bute! Dodington was one of the early favourites of Frederick, prince of Wales, whom he abandoned for the court, and to whom he returned again only to desert him once more. Stranger even than his political profligacy was his unblushing avowal of it in his well-known "Diary," first published in 1784, which did not appear until after his death, but which he showed with pride to his acquaintances, and which there is every reason to believe he intended for publication. So frank and candid a self-exhibition is almost unparalleled in autobiography, and the work has an intrinsic value from the light which it throws on the secret political history of the age. For this reason it has been frequently reprinted, although its literary merits are inconsiderable, and it has not a trace of the caustic wit which his contemporaries ascribe to its author's conversation. Soon after the accession of George III. Lord Bute rewarded Dodington's flattery and offered services with a peerage conferred in 1761, but the newly-made Lord Melcombe did not long live to enjoy his honour, dying at Hammersmith on the 28th of July, 1762. There is a character of Dodington in the appendix to vol. i. of Horace Walpole's Memoirs of the last Ten Years of George II., London, 1822, and some curious incidental notices of the diarist will be found in Richard Cumberland's Memoirs.—F. E.  DODOENS or DODONÆUS,, a Belgian physician and botanist, was born at Malines, near Antwerp, on 29th June, 1518, and died at Leyden on 10th March, 1585. He prosecuted his studies at the university of Louvain, where he acquired his medical title. He afterwards travelled in various parts of Europe, and became physician to the Emperor Maximilian II., as well as to his son Rodolph II. He subsequently became professor of medicine at Leyden. He was an accomplished man, both in literature and science. His most important works were of a botanical nature. Among them may be noticed his "Historia Stirpium."—J. H. B.  DODSLEY,, an English poet and publisher, born at Mansfield in 1703; died in September, 1764. His father, a schoolmaster in humble circumstances, could only afford his children a limited education, and Robert was forced at an early period to make way for himself in the world. Prevented by his health from carrying out his first intention of being a hosier, he held the post of valet in several distinguished families. It was while residing with Mr. Lowthers that he composed his first poems, which were published in 1732, under the title of "The Muse in Livery, or the Footman's Miscellany." Their success encouraged the cultivation of his poetic tastes; and in the following three years he wrote "Kitty, a pastoral;" "The Devil is a Dunce," and other humorous pieces. The "Toyshop" having been sent to Pope was, in consequence of his recommendation, represented at Covent Garden in 1735, and attracted great attention. Acting on the advice of his friends, the author opened a bookseller's shop in Pall Mall, and thenceforward became one of the most flourishing publishers of the time. He wrote several other plays which achieved various degrees of success; but his greatest triumph was "Cleone," in the representation of which he had the good fortune to enlist the services of Mrs. Siddons. Dodsley's renown, however, chiefly rests on his association with the celebrated authors of the day, among whom were Horace Walpole, Warton, Campbell, and Johnson. In 