Excerpt from The Sisters: Or the History of Lucy Caroline Sanson, Entrusted to a False Friend
William Dodd was the eldest son of clergyman of the same name, who held the vicarage of Bourne, in the county of Lincoln, where he died the 8th day of August 1756, at the age of 54 years. His son was born at Bourne on the 29th day of May 1729, and, after finishing his school education, was admitted a Sizar of Clare Hall, Cambridge, in the year 1745, under the tuition of Mr. John Courtail, afterwards Archdeacon of Lewes. At the university he acquired the notice of his superiors by a close application to his studies; and in the year 1749-50 took his first degree of Bachelor of Arts with considerable reputation, his name being in the lift of wranglers on that occasion. It was not, however, only in his academical pursuits that he was emulous of distinction. Having a pleasing form, a genteel address, and a lively imagination, he was equally celebrated for accomplishments which seldom accompany a life of learned retirement. In particular, he was fond of the elegancies of dress, and became, as he ludicrously expressed it, a zealous votary of the God of Dancing, to whose service he dedicated much of that time and attention, which he could borrow from his more important avocations.
The talents which he possessed he very early displayed to the public and by the time he had attained the age of eighteen years, prompted by the desire of fame, and perhaps to increase his income, commenced author, in which character he began to obtain some degree of reputation.
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