Murray Dodd

Murray Dodd (May 23, 1843 – August 25, 1905) was a lawyer, judge and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada.

He represented Cape Breton in the House of Commons of Canada from 1882 to 1887 as a Conservative member.

[1] He was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia,[1] the son of judge Edmund Murray Dodd and Caroline Maria Ritchie, a granddaughter of David Mathews, the Loyalist Mayor of New York City under the British during the American Revolution,[2] and a descendant of the prominent Schuyler family of New York City.

[1] In 1888, he was named County Court Judge for Division number 7 in Nova Scotia.

In 1893 he became one of the founding members of the Sydney Lawn Tennis Club which was incorporated by an Act of the Nova Scotia Legislature.