Thomas Dod
25
May 1682 (baptised) to 25 May 1729
DOD00111
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1682
Thomas Dod was the son of George
and Charity Dod (DOD00101) and was born in 1682 and
baptised on 25 May 1682 (Audlem Parish Records).
c 1700
Thomas was a Fellow of Brasenose
College, Oxford. He attended the University
of Oxford, matriculating and eventually becoming a Fellow of Brasenose College.
He completed his Master of Arts degree prior to delivering his most famous
address.
1704
Thomas married Susanna or Mary
Jones at Bidstone, Cheshire on 25 July 1704 (Bidstone Parish Records).
1707
Their
second son, Thomas (DOD00111), left Oxford in 1707 to become
Rector of Stepney. (Baker,
J Bellyse (1982), Highfields,
Audlem: Sixteenth Century Home of the Dod and Baker Families,
Audlem District History Society, page 10).
1716
Thomas (Rev), Rector of Stepney
1718 to 1720, author of The Rule of Equity (1717), born 1682, educated
Brasenose College, Oxford (BA 1704, MA 1707, Fellow 1707 to 1720, Proctor
1714), married Mary Jones, and died 25 May 1729 leaving issue, Mary married James
Colville, of Parliament Street, Westminster, and had issue. (Burke, John and Burke, Sir Bernard (1836)(Eighteenth Edition, 1972), Bellyse Baker of
Highfields in Burke’s Landed Gentry, Volume 3, pages
35 to 38).
Thomas was the author of The
Rule of Equity, a printed assize sermon preached and published,
delivered on 14 March 1716 or 1717 in the assizes at Oxford before Mr Justice Blencowe
and Mr Baron Montague. Assize sermons
were religious and moral addresses given to local communities, jurists, and
officials gathered for county court trials. Dod’s sermon focused on Christian
ethics, fairness, and the spiritual and legal foundations of equity
underpinning civic justice.
The sermon focused on the
"Rule of Equity," applying the Golden Rule to instruct legal
officials on applying fairness over strict legalities, notes.
1718
Thomas was Rector of Stepney from
1718 to 1720
1729
Thomas died on 25 May 1729.