Henry Dodwell, an Irish writer, born in Dublin about 1641, died at Shottesbrook, Berkshire, June 7, 1711. He graduated at Trinity college, Dublin, and settled in London in 1674. He was for about three years Camden professor of history at Oxford, but lost the office in 1691 by refusing to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary. He is known especially as a writer on classical and religious subjects. Among his works are : Annates Thucydidei et Xenophontei; Annates Velleiani, Quintiliani, Statiani; De Veteribus Groecorum, Romano-rumque Cyclis, obiterque de Cyclo Judoeorum ac AEtate Christi, Dissertationes; and "An Epistolary Discourse, proving from the Scriptures and the first Fathers that the Soul is a principle naturally mortal, but immortalized actually by the pleasure of God, to punishment or to reward, by its union with the divine baptismal Spirit; wherein it is proved that none have the power of giving this divine immortalizing Spirit since the Apostles, but only the Bishops." - See "Life of Dr. Henry Dod-well," by Francis Brokesby (London 1715).