EDWARD

See also:

• EDWARD DODWELL (1767-1832)
• DODWELL, HENRY (1641-1711)

DODWELL (1767-1832)  , English traveller and writer on archaeology . He belonged to the same family as Henry Dodwell the theologian, and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge . He travelled from 18or to 18o6 in Greece, and spent the rest of his life for the most part in Italy, at Naples and Rome . He died at Rome on the 13th of May 1832, from the effects of an illness contracted in 183o during a visit of exploration to the Sabine Mountains . His widow, a daughter of Count Giraud, thirty years his junior, subsequently became famous as the " beautiful " countess of Spaur, and played a considerable role in the political life of the papal city .