RAISING DR DODD - John Hunter's Mission to Resurrect the King's Chaplain

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  • Online/Live, Activity and Classes
  • Tickets from £4.00
  • Over 18
  • Tue, 20th Oct 2020 @ 19:00 - 21:00
  • 19:00 - 21:00

A Live, Illustrated Zoom Talk with writer Wendy Moore

In May 1777 the Reverend Dr William Dodd was sentenced to hang. As honorary chaplain to George III, Dodd had become the most fashionable clergyman of the age before his fall from grace over a silly attempt at forgery. A huge public campaign to save his neck, backed by the writer Samuel Johnson, was in vain and Dodd was taken to the gallows at Tyburn on 27 June. Yet even as he felt the noose around his neck, Dodd had not lost hope of being saved. For if Samuel Johnson’s words had failed him, Dodd fully believed that the talents of his friend John Hunter, the infamous surgeon and founder of the Hunterian Museum, would bring him back from the dead.

In this fascinating talk, Wendy Moore, the best-selling author of The Knife Man, Wedlock and Endell Street, reveals the posthumous adventure of the corpse of Rev Dr Dodd.

Tickets £4 early bird available for a limited time only including a 20% donation to NHS Charities Together. 

Wendy Moore
Wendy Moore is a freelance journalist and author of five non-fiction books on medical and social history. Her first book, The Knife Man, tells the story of the maverick medical pioneer John Hunter. Her latest book, Endell Street, was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. You can see more of her work at www.wendymoore.org.

PLEASE NOTE - This talk will take place virtually via Zoom. Ticket sales will end at 5:00 pm BST on the day of the lecture. A link to the conference will be sent to the email used at checkout at 3:00 pm BST on the day of the event. Please email suzette@acuriousinvitation.com in the event your link fails to arrive. Please note this talk will be recorded and can be sent free of charge to ticket holders by request.

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