William Dodery

{{Short description|Australian politician (1819–1912)}}

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William Dodery (August 1819 – 26 January 1912)

{{Australian Dictionary of Biography

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}} was an Australian politician.

Born in Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland, Dodery arrived in Sydney (New South Wales) with his father in 1825, and then moved to Launceston (Van Diemen's Land) six years later. He married Mary Webb at Longford in 1842 and became a land-owner and business proprietor, building the Blenheim Hotel there and establishing a coach-line for passengers between Launceston and the town.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65942716 |title=COUNTRY INTELLIGENCE. |newspaper=The Cornwall Chronicle |location=Launceston, Tasmania |date=12 December 1846 |accessdate=29 January 2013 |page=660 |via=National Library of Australia}}

He was elected to the House of Assembly for Norfolk Plains in 1861, and was re-elected in November 1862 and in October 1866,{{cite Australasia|Dodery, Hon. William}} serving until his resignation in 1870 due to business commitments.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article67274237 |title=REPRESENTATION OF NORFOLK PLAINS. |newspaper=The Cornwall Chronicle |location=Launceston, Tasmania |date=6 August 1870 |accessdate=29 January 2013 |page=13 |via=National Library of Australia}}

In March 1877 he returned to political life and was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council seat of Longford, continuing when his seat was redistributed as Westmorland in 1885. Dodery was re-elected a number of times before retiring from the Parliament on 7 May 1907 having served as President of the Legislative Council since 1904.{{cite Tas Parliament |id=doderywl |title=Dodery, William |access-date=24 July 2022}}{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50635189 |title=OBITUARY. |newspaper=The Examiner |date=27 January 1912 |accessdate=29 January 2013 |page=7 Edition: DAILY |via=Trove}}

Dodery died in Longford, Tasmania, Australia on 26 January 1912.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10201367 |title=OBITUARY. |newspaper=The Mercury |location=Hobart, Tasmania |date=27 January 1912 |accessdate=29 January 2013 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}