Born at Chichester on January 16th, 1803, the son of the Rev Moses Dodd, of Fordham, Essex. He was a pupil of Mr Lightford, of Oxford Street, and while there suffered from a serious inflammatory illness, the nature of which was not diagnosed. He became in time a student at Guy's Hospital, and was eventually appointed Curator of the Museum and Demonstrator of Anatomy. His connection with Guy's Hospital lasted some five or six years. In 1828, Mr Guy, general practitioner at Chichester, invited Dodd to join him in partnership. Within a few days of coming to Chichester he was appointed Surgeon to the Infirmary. He succeeded Guy in his practice, and took an active part in the life of the old Sussex city, interesting himself especially in the Literary Institution, where he lectured and helped to form the Museum, of which the ornithological department was collected and arranged by him. In 1843 his health broke down, and he suffered from the second of two serious attacks of haemoptysis. In 1844-1845 he took a trip to America, but did not recover sufficiently to resume practice at Chichester. In 1845 he went to Ryde, where he was soon invited to join partnership with a practitioner of long standing. At Ryde his health improved, and in December, 1845, he called a public meeting for the purpose of establishing an infirmary for the Isle of Wight. He became the active secretary of the new undertaking, which prospered in his hands. Although he did not live to see the foundation laid, yet he may be said to be the posthumous originator of this institution, which can be looked upon as his last work. In August, 1846, Dodd again fell ill, and he died on January 30th, 1847. As the nature of his case and cause of his death were matters of doubt, puzzling to the specialists of the day, including Sir James Clark and Drs Watson and Walsh, who had at different times seen him, he desired that his chest might be examined after death. This was done by Mr Marriott, his partner, and two other colleagues. A full account of the post-mortem and the discussion which it produced will be found in the *Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal* for 1847, pp. 103-4 and 138-9. He married in 1832, and left a widow and four children. Dodd was latterly a Surgeon Extraordinary to Queen Victoria, and was an early member of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, to which he was much attached. As one of its most distinguished members he delivered the Retrospective Address on Surgery at the Southampton Meeting in 1840. Publications: Dodd was a frequent contributor to medical journals, and wrote able articles in *Todd's Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology*.