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'''Henry Herbert Dodwell''' [[Master of Arts|M.A.]] (1879<ref name=aim25>{{cite web |url=https://www.aim25.com/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?coll_id=134&inst_id=19&nv1=search&nv2=basic |title=Dodwell, Henry Herbert |date=15 May 2000 |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=AIM25: Archives in London and the M25 area |access-date=23 September 2021}}</ref> – 30 October 1946<ref name=Times>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s)/no by-line.--> |date=31 October 1946 |title=Prof. H. H. Dodwell - Obituary |page=7 |work=The Times |location=London, England}}</ref>) was Professor of History and Culture of the British Dominions in Asia at the [[School of Oriental and African Studies]] (SOAS) from 1922 to 1946. He was the first holder of that chair. <br />
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Dodwell was educated at [[Lord Williams's School|Thame Grammar School]], then at [[St John's College, Oxford|St. John's College]], University of Oxford. In 1908 he married Lily May, daughter of Henry Mason. They had four children. Dodwell entered the [[Indian Education Service]] in 1908 and was there until 1922,<ref name=Times/> just before the service began to be dismantled. After his return to Britain, Dodwell edited two volumes of ''[[The Cambridge History of India]]''. He died in Chertsey, 30 October 1946, aged 67.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s)/no by-line.--> |date= 1 November 1946 |title=Dodwell |page=1 |work=The Times |location=London, England}}</ref><br />
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A small amount of papers relating to Dodwell, donated in 1989, are held in the SOAS archive.<ref name=aim25/><br />
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==Selected publications==<br />
*''A sketch of the history of India from 1858-1918''. Longmans Green & Co., 1925.<br />
*''[https://archive.org/details/cambridgehistory035098mbp The Cambridge History of India Vol. V British India, 1497-1858]''. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1929. (Editor) (doubles as Vol. IV of ''[[The Cambridge History of the British Empire]]'')<br />
*''The founder of modern Egypt: A study of Muhamad 'Ali.'' Cambridge, University Press, 1931.<br />
*''[https://archive.org/details/cambridgehistory035143mbp The Cambridge History of India Vol. VI The Indian Empire, 1858-1918. With chapters on the development of administration, 1818-1858]''. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1932. (Editor) (doubles as Vol. V of ''The Cambridge History of the British Empire'')<br />
*''The Cambridge shorter history of India''. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1934. (Editor)<br />
The papers of H. H. Dodwell including illustrations and letters relating to India are held by [https://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/collections/a-z/d/ SOAS Archives].<br />
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==Archives==<br />
The papers of H H Dodwell are held by [http://archives.soas.ac.uk/CalmView/TreeBrowse.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&field=RefNo&key=MS+380667 SOAS Special Collections]<br />
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