Born at Victoria, Vancouver Island, the son of Charles Dodd, of the Hudson Bay Company. At the age of 3 years he was brought to Norwich in England, where he was educated under the Rev Augustus Jessop, DD, at the Norwich Grammar School. He received his professional training at first under Dr Gibson of Norwich, attending the Norwich Hospital during his pupilage. Before coming to London he was Resident Surgical Dresser for eighteen months at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. He completed his medical education at St Bartholomew's Hospital, of which he was elected a Governor in 1896. In November, 1884, he was appointed House Surgeon at the Royal Free Hospital, and in January, 1889, Surgical Registrar. In July, 1890, he was elected an Assistant Surgeon, and in 1896, following his bent for ophthalmic surgery, became Assistant Ophthalmic Surgeon. In 1900, on the retirement of Grosvenor Mackinlay, he became full Ophthalmic Surgeon, and Clinical Lecturer on Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery in the Medical School of the Royal Free Hospital. He became Consulting Ophthalmic Surgeon on his retirement in June, 1913. Concurrently with his appointment at the Royal Free Hospital, he held the posts of Surgeon to the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital and Ophthalmic Surgeon to the West End Hospital for Nervous Diseases, becoming latterly Consulting Surgeon in each case. He was also, at the time of his death, Consulting Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Eltham and Mottingham Cottage Hospital and Consulting Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Booksellers' Provident Institution. In 1892 he was Hon Secretary of the Ophthalmological Section of the Nottingham Meeting of the British Medical Association. He was Surgeon in earlier life to a ship of the Telegraph Construction Company, and made voyages to South America, Cochin China, and South Africa. He continued a traveller in later life, making almost yearly visits to Norway or Sweden, Germany or Switzerland. A keen member of the Volunteer Medical Staff Corps, he was first in the Artists' Corps and then in the RAMC(T), from which he retired with the rank of Major. He was specially interested in Freemasonry. He was a great reader, and was able to sit in a room with people talking or playing cards and enjoy his book, quite undisturbed by what was going on around him. History books in particular appealed to him, but all standard novels - Thackeray, Dickens, Jane Austen, and the like - attracted him, and he had a great faculty for remembering what he had read. He could read German and French as easily as English, and was able to converse in both languages, especially the former. He was a member of the Savage and Reform Clubs. A rather reticent man, he was much liked by his colleagues and intimate friends for his geniality and kindness. He had a fine bass voice, and for many years studied singing at the London Academy of Music under Signor Denza. He was a good operator, took a keen interest in his work, and had a large practice. He practised at 136 Harley Street. About the year 1913 his health began to fail, but in spite of manifold difficulties he continued his work to the very end, and died suddenly in his consulting-room on June 28th, 1921. He was survived by his widow, Agnes, youngest daughter of James Legasick Shuter - a sister of James Shuter (qv) - by a daughter, and by two sons, of whom one was in the Indian Civil Service and the other in the Diplomatic Service. Publications:- Dodd's contributions to the literature of ophthalmology were mostly published in the *Trans. Ophthalmol. Soc.* of the United Kingdom. He was specially interested in 'green vision' and 'orientalism'. "The Optical Conditions existing in 50 apparently Normal People." - *Trans. Ophthalmol. Soc.*, 1892-3, xiii, 208. "Green Vision in a Case of Tabes Dorsalis." - *Ibid.*, 1899, xix, 281. "Green Vision." - *Ibid.*, 1900, xx, 264. "One Hundred Consecutive Cases of Epilepsy: Refraction and Treatment by Glasses." - *Brain*, 1893, xvi, 534. "Bilateral Resection of Superior Cervical Ganglion for Glaucoma." - *Lancet*, 1900 ii, 1071. "Orientalism." - *Ibid.*, 1906, i, 1753.