1741 he began to issue a series of magazines, such as the Public Register, the Museum, and the Preceptor, together with several of the works of Johnson, Pope, Akenside, and Young. In 1758 he started the Annual Register, under the auspices of Edmund Burke. His Select Fables of Æsop appeared in 1760, with a preface by Shenstone. Three years later Dodsley retired on a competency, the reward of his talent, industry, and enterprise. He lived but a short time to enjoy his well-earned repose. Cut off by an attack of gout, he came to the close of a life during which he was beloved for his rectitude, dignity of character, and amiable disposition. His works have been published in three volumes. "The Economy of Human Life," "The Toyshop," "The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green," and several others, have been translated into French.—A. J. N.
DODSWORTH, Roger, an English historian, born in 1585; died in 1664. This illustrious and indefatigable antiquarian made himself famous by his researches among the cloisters and libraries of England. He was a protegé of Lieutenant Fairfax, to whom we owe the preservation of most of Dodsworth's manuscripts. Under the title of "Monasticum Anglicanum, or the History of the ancient abbeys, monasteries, hospitals, cathedrals, and collegiate churches, with their dependencies in England and Wales," they were published in London in 1655, 1661, and 1673, by Stevens.—A. J. N.
DODWELL, Edward, an English antiquarian and man of letters, was born in 1767, and educated in Trinity college, Cambridge. Being in easy circumstances, he devoted his life to the investigation of the antiquities of Greece; and for that purpose he visited that country, and published his "Classical Tour through Greece during the years 1804, 1805, and 1806," which he subsequently illustrated by a volume of drawings. He resided principally abroad, passing most of his time at Naples and Rome, and died at the latter city on the 14th May, 1832. Mt. Dodwell was an accurate and extensive scholar, and a man of fine taste; and his work attained the deserved honour of being translated into several languages. A posthumous work, illustrating the Cyclopean and Pelasgic remains in Greece and Italy, was published in 1834.—J. F. W.
DODWELL, Henry, born in Dublin in October, 1641; died at Shottsbrook, June 17, 1711. Upon the breaking out of the Irish rebellion, his father lost his property and left that kingdom, settling in York in 1648, at the free school of which he received his education. When he was about twelve years old, his father went to Ireland in the hope of recovering his estate, but did not live to return; and his mother did not long survive. The boy had to struggle through great trials and poverty till a maternal uncle came to his rescue in 1654, and sent him to Trinity college, Dublin, in 1656. Here he distinguished himself by his studious habits and great acquisition of learning, and had the good fortune to recover a part of his patrimony, and to obtain a fellowship. Being under obligation to enter into holy orders, which he was unwilling to do from conscientious scruples, he resigned his fellowship in 1666, and went to reside in Oxford, where he devoted himself to study. Returning to Dublin in 1672, he published a posthumous dissertation of Dr. Stearn, the preface to which by Dodwell was noticed for its great erudition. This was followed by other publications; and on his return to London, he gave himself up to authorship. His acquaintance was sought by the most distinguished persons. He was appointed to the Camden professorship of history in Oxford, but was deprived of his chair in 1691, on refusing to take the oath of allegiance to the new government. When deprived of his professorship, Dodwell retired to the country; first to Cookham, and finally to Shottsbrook, where he married at the age of fifty-two. In his retirement he continued his literary labours, and produced the most important of his works chiefly on the chronology of Roman authors and of history. Dodwell was a man of extraordinary erudition. Gibbon says, "Dodwell's learning was immense. In this part of history, especially, nothing could escape him; and his skill in employing facts is equal to his learning." He was, however, like many other great scholars, not equally gifted with the higher intellectual endowments; his judgment was defective, his reasoning often faulty, and his opinions eccentric. He is, on the whole, to be commended for his great research, and accurate and minute knowledge, rather than for mental power. He met abundance of assailants in the promulgation of his views, which he was not slow to defend by tracts without number. In feeling and conduct Dodwell was upright, conscientious, and sincere, and never sacrificed his principles to avoid a trial, or to secure worldly advancement.—J. F. W.
DOES, Jacob van der, the Elder, was born at Amsterdam in 1620; died in 1673. After having studied under N. Moyaart, and profited by the advice of his friend Dujardin, he visited Italy. He arrived in Rome penniless and almost starving. He was induced to enter the pope's army, when, luckily for art, he met some countrymen of his, who not only relieved his momentary wants, but enabled him to carry on his efforts in painting. From this resolve, however transitory, of becoming a soldier, he was henceforth called il Tambreno (the Drummer). In his studies he affected a peculiar sympathy for Van Laar (the Bamboccio), whose style he strove to imitate.
DOES, Jacob van der, the Younger, brother of Simon, born in 1654, devoted himself to historical painting; studied under C. Dujardin—the friend of his father—G. Netscher, and G. Lairesse. His talents procured him the honour of accompanying a Dutch ambassador to Paris, where unfortunately he lost his life in a duel.—R. M.
DOES, Simon van der, born in 1653, followed the paternal steps and tuition; worked in Holland and in England. On his return home, having contracted an unlucky marriage, he was totally ruined, and confined for three years in a kind of poorhouse. He subsequently went to Brussels, where he became eminent both for his landscapes and for his portraits. The representation of sheep, however, was his favourite and most successful branch.
DOES, Peter van der. See Dousa.
DOESBOUKE, John, a printer of Anvers about the beginning of the sixteenth century. He is chiefly remembered on account of having printed three little works on which British bibliomaniacs set an extravagant value. These are—the History of Fredericke; the History of Mary of Nemeyen; and the History of Vergelius. They brought large prices at the duke of Roxburgh's sale in 1812.—R. M., A.
DOGGET, Thomas, was born in Castle Street, Dublin, in the latter half of the 17th century, as we find him on the London boards in 1691. His first essay in his native city not being successful, he entered a strolling company in England, and finding his way to London, was soon a favourite, both at Drury Lane and Lincolns Inn Fields. So highly was he thought of by Congreve, that he wrote the character of Fondlewife in the Old Bachelor, and that of Ben in Love for Love, to suit his particular humour. In 1709 Dogget was associated with Cibber and Wilks in the new patent for Drury Lane; but when Booth was forced upon them Dogget threw up his share, said to be worth £1000 a-year. He had, however, saved enough to retire on an independence before age came upon him. He died at Eltham in Kent, 22d Sept., 1721. He was a man of great originality, humorous without burlesque, and never exaggerated nature. He dressed his characters inimitably, and painted his face to represent any age with such skill, that Sir Godfrey Kneller told him once that he excelled him in his own art—that he could only copy nature from the originals before him, while Dogget could vary them at pleasure. Dogget wrote a comedy, "The Country Wake," which was well received, and which he afterwards turned to a farce. He was an ardent politician, and a strong Hanoverian. On the accession of George I., he gave a waterman's coat and silver badge, to be rowed for in honour of the event, and by a bequest left a sum of money to purchase a similar prize, which is contested for on every first of August on the Thames between London and Chelsea.—J. F. W.
DOGIEL, Mathias, a Polish historian, born in Lithuania in 1715; died at Warsaw in 1760. After studying science and literature at Warsaw college, he was admitted a member of the Piaristes' congregation, began to teach at Wilna, and soon was appointed private teacher to the sons of the grand-marshal at the Lithuanian court. He founded the Piariste college at Wilna. His principal work is—"Codex diplomaticus regni Poloniæ et magni ducatûs Lithuaniæ, in quo pacta, fœdera, tractatus pacis, mutuæ ɐmicitiæ, subsidiorum, inductorum, commerciorum, necnon conventiones, pactiones," &c., Wilna, 1758-64. Of this, which contains one thousand diplomatic documents, Talleyrand said it interested not only the natives of Poland, but all who study diplomacy.—Ch. T.
DOHERTY, John, the Right Hon. Chief-Justice of the Common Pleas in Ireland, was born about the year 1783. He
