George Dodd (politician)

{{short description|English Conservative politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2016}} {{Use British English|date=August 2016}} '''George Dodd''' (c. 1800 – 12 December 1864<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001427/18641215/081/0008|title=Deaths|date=15 December 1864|work=[[Morning Advertiser]]|access-date=31 July 2019|issue=22939|page=8|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]|url-access=subscription}}</ref>) was an English [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] politician who sat in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] from 1841 to 1853.

Dodd was the son of George Dodd of Montagu Square, London. He was elected Fellow of the [[Society of Antiquaries of London|Society of Antiquaries]] on 12 March 1835.<ref name=FOWNC>[http://www.fownc.org/pdf/newsletter49.pdf Friends of West Norwood Cemetery Newsletter 2004]</ref>

Dodd was elected [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Maidstone (UK Parliament constituency)|Maidstone]], Kent on 29 June 1841 and held the seat until 1853. He was re-elected for Maidstone in the [[1852 United Kingdom general election|1852 general election]] but his election was declared void on petition, and a by-election was held on 22 April 1853.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Mcommons1.htm|title=Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 1)|date=23 June 2018|website=Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180903234834/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Mcommons1.htm|archive-date=3 September 2018|url-status=usurped|access-date=31 July 2019}}</ref> He was one of the Gentlemen of Her Majesty's privy chamber from 1844.<ref name=FOWNC/>

Dodd married Georgiana Sanders, daughter of Joseph Sanders. They had one son, George Ashley Dodd, born 29 Sept 1842. Their granddaughter [[Editha Aceituna Thurlow Griffin]] was a mystery and historical romance writer.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cLc7AQAAMAAJ&dq=Aceituna+Thurlow&pg=PA796|title=Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage: Comprising Information Concerning All Persons Bearing Hereditary Or Courtesy Titles, Knights, and Companions of All the Various Orders, and the Collateral Branches of All Peers and Baronets|date=1902|publisher=Dean & Son, Limited|pages=796|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Kemp|first=Sandra|title=Edwardian fiction : an Oxford companion|date=1997|publisher=Oxford University Press|others=Charlotte Mitchell, David Trotter|isbn=0-19-811760-4|location=Oxford|oclc=36011549}}</ref>

In 1865 [[Thomas Allom]] was commissioned to design a mausoleum for George Dodd at [[West Norwood Cemetery]]. The mausoleum is in the form of a small Gothic chapel with coloured marble, suggesting a north Italian inspiration for the design, and is now a Grade II listed building. It has been suggested that Dodd had bought sixteen houses designed by Thomas Allom in Kensington Park Gardens and wanted his mausoleum to be designed by the same architect.<ref name=FOWNC/>

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