George Dodington

George Dodington

George Dodington (c.1662 – 28 March 1720) was a Whig politician under the patronage of Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford.

Dodington served as Secretary to the Treasurer of the Navy during the reign of William III, and in 1707-1708 was Secretary to the Commissioners for a Union with Scotland. From 1708 to 1710 he was one of the Lords of the Admiralty. From 1715 until his death he was Lord Lieutenant of Somerset. He died in 1720 and left his estate to his nephew George Bubb, who assumed the surname of Dodington.

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* Robert Walcott, "English Politics in the Early Eighteenth Century" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956)


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