Edward Dodding, M.D., was born in Westmorland, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, of which house he was a fellow. He proceeded A.B. 1562, A.M. 1566, had a licence from the university to practise physic 24th January, 1572-3, and was created M.D. in 1576. In the following year he appears to have been in practice at Bristol. Dr. Dodding was admitted a Fellow of the College of Physicians 25th June, 1584. He was buried at St. Dunstan’s in the West, 11th April, 1592. In the State Paper Office there is a MS. from his pen, being a Report in Latin of the sickness and death at Bristol of the man brought home by Captain Frobisher from the north-west, 1577.

William Munk