Background
He was born in Malpas, Cheshire, the youngest of a family of seventeen.
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John Dod
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He was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge.
Career
He is known for his widely circulated writings. He was a learned man, a good Hebraist, and, it is said, witty and cheerful. He was vicar of Hanwell, Oxfordshire, from 1585, in the gift of Anthony Cope, also preaching at Banbury.
Robert Cleaver, his co-author, was in a neighbouring parish, Drayton.
Dod was ejected from his parish at Hanwell in 1607. From 1608 he was at Canons Ashby and then rector of Fawsley, where his patron was Richard Knightley.
A false accusation brought against him of having defrauded the college of a sum of money due from one of his pupils was the cause of a fever which almost cost him his life. During his illness he received strong religious impressions, and after his recovery, his character being fully cleared, he preached at a weekly lecture set up by some ‘godly’ people of Ely.
When he was probably past thirty he was instituted to the living of Hanwell, Oxfordshire, where he remained for twenty years.
At Hanwell he worked diligently, preaching twice each Sunday besides catechising and supplying, in conjunction with four others, a weekly lectureship at Banbury. In 1624 he was presented to the rectory of Fawsley in the same county, where he remained until his death. In the course of the civil war he is said to have been troubled by the royalist soldiers.
He died at Fawsley, and was there buried on 19 August 1645.
They had 12 children. He remarried after her death.
John Wilkins was a grandson, and succeeded him at Fawsley in 1637. Timothy Dod (d 1665), an ejected minister in 1662, was a son.
