Background
Philip Stanhope Dodd was son of the Review Richard Dodd (d 1811), rector of Cowley, Middlesex and author of a translation of Formey"s Ecclesiastical History.
Philip Stanhope Dodd was son of the Review Richard Dodd (d 1811), rector of Cowley, Middlesex and author of a translation of Formey"s Ecclesiastical History.
He was educated at Tonbridge School and Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he proceeded Bachelor of Arts in 1796, Master of Arts
In 1799, and was elected a fellowship In early life he was for some years curate of Camberwell, Surrey, which appointment he exchanged in 1803 for the ministry of Lambeth Chapel, retaining the afternoon lecture at Camberwell. In 1806 he was chaplain to the lord mayor, Sir William Leighton.
He was rewarded for his civic services by the valuable rectory of Street Mary-at-Hill in the city of London in 1807, where he was one of the most popular divines of the metropolis.
In 1812 he was presented by his college to the sinecure rectory of Aldrington in Sussex, the church of which had been destroyed. Sir J. South. Sidney, bart., in 1819 gave him the rectory of Penshurst, Kent, worth £766 per annum, which was his last church preferment.
Dodd died at Penshurst Rectory 22 March 1852, aged 77.