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HENRY DODWELL (1641-1711)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 374 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:DODWELL (1641-1711)  , See also:scholar, theologian and controversial writer, was See also:born at See also:Dublin in See also:October, 1.641 . His See also:father, having lost his See also:property in See also:Connaught during the See also:rebellion, settled at See also:York in 1648 . Here See also:Henry received his preliminary See also:education at the See also:free school . In 1654 he was sent by his See also:uncle to Trinity See also:College, Dublin, of which he subsequently became scholar and See also:fellow . Having conscientious objections to taking orders he relinquished his fellowship in 1666, but in 1688 he was elected See also:Camden See also:professor of, See also:history at See also:Oxford, In 1691 he was deprived of his professorship for refusing to take the See also:oath of See also:allegiance to See also:William and See also:Mary . Retiring to Shottesbrooke in See also:Berkshire, and living on the produce of a small See also:estate in See also:Ireland, he devoted himself to the study of See also:chronology and ecclesiastical polity . See also: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 See also:style . See also:Dodwell's See also:works on ecclesiastical polity are more numerous and of much less value than those on chronology, his See also:judgment being far inferior to his See also:power of See also:research . In his earlier writings he was regarded as one of the greatest champions of the non-jurors; but the See also:doctrine which he afterwards promulgated, that the soul is naturally mortal, and that See also:immortality could be enjoyed only by those who had received See also:baptism from the hands of one set of regularly ordained See also:clergy,' and was therefore a See also:privilege from , which dissenters were hopelessly excluded, did not strengthen his reputation . Dodwell died at Shottesbrooke on the 7th of See also:June 1711 . His See also:chief works on classical chronology are: A Discourse concerning Sanchoniathon's Phoenician History (1681) ; Annales Thucydidei et Xenophontei (1702); Chronologia Graeco-See also:Romana See also:pro hypothesibus See also:Dion . Halicarnassei (1692); Annales Velleiani, Quiniilianei, Statiani (1698); and 'a larger See also:treatise entitled De veteribus Graecorum Romanorumque'Cyclis (1701) .

His eldest son Henry (d . 1784) is known as the author of a pamphlet entitled See also:

Christianity not founded on See also:Argument, to which a reply was published by his See also:brother William (1709-1785), who was besides engaged in a controversy with Dr Conyers See also:Middleton on the subject of miracles . See The Works of H . D . . . abridg'd with an See also:account of his See also:life, by F . Brokesby (2nd ed., 1723) and See also:Thomas See also:Hearne's Diaries .

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