NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Dodd, James William, 1740?-1796 DNB: Dodd, James William (c.1740-1796), actor LBT ID: JaDodd1796 VIAF ID: 44194606 LOC ID: nr96004254 | B/BAP: 1740 DIED: 1796-09-17 |
SOURCES: DNB; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File | |
English comic actor and book collector who played Sir Benjamin Backbite in The School for Scandal. | |
REFERENCES TO James William Dodd: Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, 20 March 1822 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1:
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