John Dodderidge 1555-1628
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Sir John DODDERIDGE 1555-1628
Biographical Note
A successful lawyer, and judge at the Court of King’s Bench.
Books
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.