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Dodsley was born near Mansfield in Nottinghamshire in 1724.
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James Dodsley
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The plan of the tax on receipts was suggested by him to the Rockingham administration in 1782. On 7 June 1787 he lost £2,500 worth of quirestock, burnt in a warehouse. He paid the usual fine instead of serving the office of Sheriff of London and Middlesex in 1788.
He led a secluded life, and some years before his death gave up his shop, dealing wholesale in his own publications.
The retail business was taken over by George Nicol. He kept a carriage many years, but studiously wished that his friends should not know it, nor did he ever use it on the eastern side of Temple Bar, according to the Gentleman"s Magazine.
He died on 19 February 1797 at his house in Pall Mall in his seventy-fourth year, and was buried in Street James"s Church, Westminster.
