Background
George Bubb Dodington was born in 1691, the birth place is unknown.
George Bubb Dodington was born in 1691, the birth place is unknown.
Dodington was educated at Oxford.
Until he was raised to the peerage (1761), he represented one of the House of Commons constituencies controlled by his family and selected members for two or three others. After serving capably as envoy extraordinary to Spain (1715–1717), he held a succession of government sinecures. In 1744 he was appointed treasurer of the navy, but he wavered in his support of George II, periodically opting instead to back the Prince of Wales. His most creditable action was a speech (February 22, 1757) against the impending execution of Admiral John Byng on a questionable charge of neglect of duty in battle.
George Bubb Dodington died on July 1762, in Hammersmith, England.
The statesman, George Bubb Dodington was a career office seeker, who was the subject of a satirical engraving by William Hogarth, "Chairing the Members" (1758), and kept a diary (published 1784) that remains one of the best sources on British politics of his time.
Dodington was a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.
