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Education: private tutor, Mr Stott; school in Kingston 1712; school at St Albans; academy of the Independent minister John Jennings 1719; DD Marischal College, Aberdeen 1736; DD King's College, Aberdeen 1737

Patrons: Samuel Clark gave him a temporary home in St Albans and found him a place at a dissenting academy; The Earl of Halifax; He received money for books from both the Presbyterian and the Congregational funds to continue his independent studies

Periodicals etc.: made an abstract of the second volume of Warburton's Divine Legation; corrected Whitefield's Journals and Fordyce's Dialogues; wrote a prefatory letter to Joseph Williams's Abridgment of Mr. David Brainerd's Journal (1748); edited Robert Leighton's Expository Works (1748); edited Watts's posthumous The Improvement of the Mind, part 2 (1751) and his Works (6 vols., 1753)

Overall: Doddridge was a zealous dissenting minister who was actively involved in his clerical duties. He was a prolific sermon writer, usually spoken extemporaneously. He would often follow his sermons with an original hymn, based off of biblical texts and intended to reinforce the day's sermon. These hymns were collected from MS and published posthumously. He also reviewed works by Newton and Hutcheson, in addition to editing the works of literary friends (see 'Periodicals and Misc. column).

Jacob Sider Jost/ Mary Naydan/ Noah Fusco, “Poets of the 1730s: A Digital Humanities Seedling” (2017/ 2021)