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His father, William Dodwell, having lost his property at Connaught during the Irish rebellion, settled at York in 1648 . Here Henry received his preliminary education at the free school. In 1654 he was sent by his uncle to Trinity College, Dublin , of which he subsequently became scholar and fellow, receiving the Bachelor of Arts (1662) and Master of Arts (1663). Having conscientious objections to taking orders he relinquished his fellowship in 1666 , but in 1688 he was elected Camden professor of history at Oxford . In 1691 he was deprived of his professorship for refusing to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary . Retiring to Shottesbrooke in Berkshire , and living on the produce of a small estate in Ireland , he devoted himself to the study of chronology and ecclesiastical polity, providing a defense of the deprived nonjuring bishops. Gibbon speaks of his learning as "immense," and says that his "skill in employing facts is equal to his learning," although he severely criticizes his method and style. Dodwell's works on ecclesiastical polity are more numerous those on chronology. In his ecclesiastical writings he was regarded as one of the greatest champions of the non-jurors; but the doctrine which he afterwards promulgated, that the soul is naturally mortal, and that immortality could be enjoyed only by those who had received Baptism from the hands of one set of regularly ordained clergy, and was therefore a privilege from, which dissenters were hopelessry excluded, did not strengthen his reputation. Never countenancing the continuation of the Nonjuring Schism , Dodwell returned to the Chruch of England in 1710, following the death of William Lloyd , the deprived bishop of Norwich and Thomas Ken 's decision to relinquish his claim to the see of Bath And Wells . Dodwell died at Shottesbrooke on the June 7 1711 . His chief works on classical chronology are:
His eldest son Henry (d. 1784 ) is known as the author of a pamphlet entitled ''Christianity not founded on Argument'', to which a reply was published by his brother William ( 1709 - 1785 ), who was besides engaged in a controversy with Dr Conyers Middleton on the subject of miracles. See ''The Works of H. D. ... abridg'd'' with an account of his life, by F Brokesby (2nd ed., 1723 ) Thomas Hearne's ''Diaries''. Also see Theodor Harmsen, "Henry Dodwell," ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.'' REFERENCES |
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