William Dodd

(1729-1777)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Dodd, William, 1729-1777 DNB: Dodd, William [nicknamed the Macaroni Parson] (1729–1777), Church of England clergyman and forger LBT ID: WiDodd1777 VIAF ID: 66735962 LOC ID: n85024059	B/BAP: 1729 DIED: 1777-06-27
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English clergyman and poet educated at Clare College, Cambridge; he was a notable preacher at the Magdalen Hospital but still more notable for being hung as a forger.
REFERENCES TO William Dodd: Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, [5 October 1802] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 2 Charles Lamb to Robert Southey, [9 August 1815] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch. XXIV. 1794-1800 Found 1: ¶ 12 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1802 Found 2: ¶ 4 ¶ 13 Letters: 1815 Found 1: ¶ 2