Henry Dodwell (October, 1641 - June 7, 1711), scholar, theologian and, controversial writer, was born in October 1641 in Dublin. Look up October in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Events The Long Parliament passes a series of legislation designed to contain Charles Is absolutist tendencies. ... June 7 is the 158th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (159th in leap years), with 207 days remaining. ... // Events February 24 - The London premiere of Rinaldo by George Friderich Handel, the first Italian opera written for the London stage. ... Theology is reasoned discourse concerning God (Greek θεος, theos, God, + λογος, logos, word or reason). It can also refer to the study of other religious topics. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 53. ...

His father, William Dodwell, having lost his property at Connaught during the Irish rebellion, settled at York in 1648. Here Henry received his preliminary education at the free school. In 1654 he was sent by his uncle to Trinity College, Dublin, of which he subsequently became scholar and fellow, receiving the Bachelor of Arts (1662) and Master of Arts (1663). Having conscientious objections to taking orders he relinquished his fellowship in 1666, but in 1688 he was elected Camden professor of history at Oxford. In 1691 he was deprived of his professorship for refusing to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary. Connaught redirects here. ... York is a city in northern England, at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss. ... // Events January 17 - Englands Long Parliament passes the Vote of No Address, breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the English Civil War. ... Events April 5 - Signing of the Treaty of Westminster, ending the First Anglo-Dutch War. ... The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin or more commonly Trinity College, Dublin was founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I, and is the only constituent college of the University of Dublin, Irelands oldest university. ... Events September 2 - Great Fire of London: A large fire breaks out in London in the house of Charles IIs baker on Pudding Lane near London Bridge. ... // Events A high-powered conspiracy of notables, the Immortal Seven, invite William and Mary to depose James II of England. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford, England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... Events March 5 - French troops under Marshal Louis-Francois de Boufflers besiege the Spanish-held town of Mons March 20 - Leislers Rebellion - New governor arrives in New York - Jacob Leisler surrenders after standoff of several hours March 29 - Siege of Mons ends to the city’s surrender May 6... William III of England (14 November 1650 – 8 March 1702; also known as William II of Scotland and William III of Orange) was a Dutch aristocrat and a Protestant Prince of Orange from his birth, King of England and King of Ireland from 13 February 1689, and King of Scots... Mary II (30 April 1662–28 December 1694) reigned as Queen of England and Ireland from 13 February 1689 until her death, and as Queen of Scotland (as Mary II of Scotland) from 11 April 1689 until her death. ...

Retiring to Shottesbrooke in Berkshire, and living on the produce of a small estate in Ireland, he devoted himself to the study of chronology and ecclesiastical polity, providing a defense of the deprived nonjuring bishops. 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 style. Dodwell's works on ecclesiastical polity are more numerous those on chronology. In his ecclesiastical writings he was regarded as one of the greatest champions of the non-jurors; but the doctrine which he afterwards promulgated, that the soul is naturally mortal, and that immortality could be enjoyed only by those who had received baptism from the hands of one set of regularly ordained clergy, and was therefore a privilege from, which dissenters were hopelessry excluded, did not strengthen his reputation. Never countenancing the continuation of the nonjuring schism, Dodwell returned to the Chruch of England in 1710, following the death of William Lloyd, the deprived bishop of Norwich and Thomas Ken's decision to relinquish his claim to the see of Bath and Wells. Dodwell died at Shottesbrooke on the June 7, 1711. Berkshire (IPA: or  ; sometimes abbreviated to Berks) is a county in England and forms part of the South East England region. ... Baptism in early Christian art. ... The Nonjuring schism was a split in the Anglican Church in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution, over whether William of Orange could legally be recognized as King of England. ... William Watkiss Lloyd (March 11, 1813 - December 22, 1893), was an English writer. ... Norwich (pronounced variously Norritch, Norridge) is a city in East Anglia, in Eastern England, and the regional administrative centre and county town of Norfolk. ... Thomas Ken (1637 - March 19, 1711), the most eminent of the English non-juring bishops, and one of the fathers of modern English hymnology, was born at Little Berkhampstead, Herts. ... The Diocese of Bath and Wells is an administrative division of the Church of England Province of Canterbury in England. ... June 7 is the 158th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (159th in leap years), with 207 days remaining. ... // Events February 24 - The London premiere of Rinaldo by George Friderich Handel, the first Italian opera written for the London stage. ...

His chief works on classical chronology are:

• A Discourse concerning Sanchoniathon's Phoenician History (1681)
• Annales Thucydidei et Xenophontei (1702)
• Chronologia Graeco-Romana pro hyfrothesibus Dion. Halicarnassei (1692)
• Annales Velleiani, Quintilianei, Statiani (1698)
• a larger treatise entitled De veleri bus Graecorum Romanorumque Cyclis (1701).

His eldest son Henry (d. 1784) is known as the author of a pamphlet entitled Christianity not founded on Argument, to which a reply was published by his brother William (1709-1785), who was besides engaged in a controversy with Dr Conyers Middleton on the subject of miracles. Events March 4 - Charles II of England grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania. ... Events March 8 - William III died; Princess Anne Stuart becomes Queen Anne of England, Scotland and Ireland. ... Events February 13 - Massacre of Glencoe March 1 - The Salem witch trials begin in Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony with the charging of three women with witchcraft. ... Events January 4 - Palace of Whitehall in London is destroyed by fire. ... Events January 18 - Frederick I becomes King of Prussia. ... 1784 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... // Events January 12 - Two-month freezing period begins in France - The coast of the Atlantic and Seine River freeze, crops fail and at least 24. ... 1785 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Conyers Middleton (December 27, 1683 - July 28, 1750), English divine, was born at Richmond in Yorkshire. ...

See The Works of H. D. ... abridg'd with an account of his life, by F Brokesby (2nd ed., 1723) Thomas Hearne's Diaries. Also see Theodor Harmsen, "Henry Dodwell," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Events February 16 - Louis XV of France attains his majority Births February 24 - John Burgoyne, British general (d. ...

References

• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.