William Dodsworth

William Dodsworth (1798–1861) was an English cleric of the Church of England, a Tractarian who became a Roman Catholic lay writer.

Dodsworth received his education at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was admitted in October 1815.

[2] Dodsworth became in 1829 minister of Margaret Street Chapel, Cavendish Square, London, where he was a popular preacher.

After the judgment in the Gorham case, he resigned his preferment, and joined the Roman Catholic church in January 1851.

He died in York Terrace, Regent's Park, on 10 December 1861, leaving several children by his wife Elizabeth, youngest sister of Lord Churston.