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Sir John DODDERIDGE 1555-1628
Biographical Note
Son of Robert Dodderidge of South Molton, Devon, merchant and shipowner. BA Exeter College, Oxford 1577; admitted at the Middle Temple 1577 (barrister 1585, bencher 1603). MP for Barnstaple 1589, and for Horsham 1604; Serjeant at law 1605, king's serjeant 1607 (when he was knighted); judge of the Court of King's Bench 1612. He was widely respected for his legal knowledge and judgment, and published a number of legal manuals.
Books
Dodderidge's commonplace book (British Library MS Hargrave 407-8) reflects the wide range of his reading. He belonged to, and possibly helped found, the Society of Antiquaries which briefly flourished around the turn of the 17th century. He left most of his books to his nephew John, who gave 112 volumes from their libraries to Barnstaple as the foundation of a town library, which was built 1665-7.
Sources
- Dodderidge, S. The Dodderidges of Devon: with an account of the Bibliotheca Doddridgiana, 1909.
- Ibbetson, David. "Dodderidge [Doddridge], Sir John (1555–1628), judge." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- Perkin, M. A directory of the parochial libraries of the Church of England. London, 2004, 130.