Dodding Bradyll

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Dodding Bradyll (1689–1748) was an English politician and businessman.{{Cite web |last=Cruickshanks |first=Eveline |title=BRADYLL, Dodding (1689-1748), of Conishead Priory, nr. Lancaster. {{!}} History of Parliament Online |url=https://d6.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/bradyll-dodding-1689-1748 |access-date=2024-09-02 |website=historyofparliamentonline.org}}

Born at Conishead Priory, Lancashire, to merchant John Bradyll and Sarah, the daughter of Miles Dodding.{{Cite thesis |last=Saville-Smith|first=Katherine Julie|title=Cumbria's Encounter With The East Indies C.1680-1829: Gentry And Middling Provincial Families Seeking Success |date=2016 |access-date=3 September 2024 |degree=PhD |publisher=University of Lancaster |url=https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/80022/1/2016SavilleSmithphd.pdf}}

Bradyll was elected unopposed as the Whig MP for Lancaster at the 1715 General Election, though he did not contest at the next election. In 1728, he followed his father and brother in becoming a director of the East India Company, serving as deputy chairman in 1744 and 1748, and as chairman in 1745. {{S-start}}

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| title = Member of Parliament for Lancaster

| years = 1722–1745

| before = Robert Heysham
William Heysham

| after = Thomas Lowther
William Heysham, junior

| with = William Heysham 1715-1716
William Heysham, junior 1716-1722

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