John Dodson, 2nd Baron Monk Bretton

John William Dodson, 2nd Baron Monk Bretton, CB (22 September 1869 – 29 July 1933) was a British diplomat, sometime chairman of London County Council, and landowner.

The only son of the first Lord Monk Bretton, Dodson was educated at Eton (1883–1887), and New College, Oxford, (BA, 1891, 3rd class, Modern history).

This was a suitable peak as Joe Chamberlain had once said of him: 'Monk Bretton knows more about local government than any other man of my acquaintance'.

The Times obituary described him: He was also a JP; Deputy Lieutenant (Sussex); in politics a Unionist; a subaltern in 1st Cinque Port Rifle Volunteers, and during the First World War he was a Major in the Sussex Yeomanry and was attached to the Naval Intelligence Department.

He died aged 63 in a nursing home in Brighton on 29 July and was buried in the family vault at Barcombe in East Sussex, on 1 August 1933.

"The Private Secretary". Caricature by Spy published in Vanity Fair in 1909.
Conyboro, the house Dodson inherited in 1897/1912. An 1898 watercolour by the younger of his two elder sisters, Ethel-Millicent.
Monk Bretton's father-in-law
2nd Lord Monk Bretton and Ruth Brand, wedding day photo, Firle , East Sussex, 19 August 1911.