DODINGTON, George (c.1662-1720), of Dodington, Som. and Eastbury, Dorset

Family and Education

b. c. 1662, 1st s. of John Dodington of Dodington by Hester (d. 1691), da. of Sir Peter Temple, 2nd Bt.†, of Stowe, Bucks. m. lic. 12 Feb. 1697, aged 35, Eleanor (d. c.1714), da. and coh. of Henry Bull*, s.p. suc. fa. 1673. VCH Som. v. 66; vi. 329; The Gen. i. 27; London Mar. Lic. ed. Foster, 409; CSP Dom. 1673–5, p. 111.

Offices Held

Commr. appeals in excise 1679–1705; paymaster to treasurer of navy 1695– June 1699; trustee for Exchequer bills 1697–1700, for loan to Emperor 1706; commr. Greenwich Hosp. 1695, taking subscriptions to land bank 1696, taking subscriptions to S. Sea Co. 1711; sec. to English commrs. for union with Scotland 1706; chief sec. [I] 1707–8; ld. of Admiralty 1709–10, 1714–17; PC [I] Sept. 1714; clerk of the pells [I] 1715 (for life of his nephew George Bubb Dodington†). Cal. Treas. Bks. vi. 46; x. 1083; xii. 8; xv. 335; xix. 45; xx. 233; xxix. 141; Luttrell, Brief Relation, iv. 523; vi. 28, 38, 160; Add. 10120, ff. 232–36; Pittis, Present Parl. 349; CJ, xii. 509; A. B. Beaven’s list of Irish PCs, Hist. of Parl.

Dir. Old E.I. Co, 1695–8; New E.I. Co. 1702–5. Info. from Prof. H. Horwitz; Add. 38871, f. 15.

MP [I] 14 July 1707–13.

Parlimentarian

DODINGTON, George (c.1658-1720), of Eastbury, Dorset.

Main residences: Dodington, Som.; Eastbury, Dorset.

Author

A.A.H.

Volume

Commons 1690-1715

Web Title

DODINGTON, George (c.1662-1720)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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