Born 18 May 1858, the son of Thomas A H Dodd, who practised at Ryton, Co Durham. He was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, and gained the Dickinson, Tulloch, and Heath scholarships at the University of Durham. He was house surgeon at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Infirmary, and entered the army as surgeon on 5 February 1881, becoming lieutenant-colonel after twenty years' service, and colonel AMS on 9 September 1908. He retired from the service on 12 October 1912, but was re-employed during the war of 1914-18. He served through the Ashanti campaign in 1896, receiving the Star. In 1914 he was a member of the Rockefeller Commission which visited Trinidad to investigate ankylostomiasis in the Indian population. In 1919 he settled in Bournemouth, and devoted himself to archaeology and municipal duties. He was one of the first to organize the National Citizens Union, and was member of the Royal Empire Society. He married in 1897 the eldest daughter of J W Cross, general manager of the London and Provincial Bank, who survived him with one son Captain T Dodd, RAMC. He died at Bournemouth on 11 June 1930. Publications:- Ambulance. *Encyclopaedia Britannica*, 11th edition, 1910. Diseases of soldiers, in *Dangerous Trades*, edited by T Oliver. London, 1902.