William Dodwell (1709–1785) was an English cleric known as a theological writer, archdeacon of Berkshire from 1763.
He was born at Shottesbrooke, Berkshire, on 17 June 1709, was the second son and fifth child of Henry Dodwell the elder, the nonjuror.
Subsequently, another bishop of Salisbury, John Thomas, made him archdeacon of Berkshire, in 1763.
by diploma, in recognition of his services to religion by his replies to Conyers Middleton (see Middletonian Controversy).
He was the brother of religious controversialist and lawyer Henry Dodwell jr, who wrote the well known tract Christianity Not Founded on Argument (1741).