Youngest of 20 child­ren, Dod­dridge at­tend­ed Kings­ton Gram­mar School at St. Al­bans, and a non­con­form­ist acad­e­my in Kib­worth, Lei­ces­ter­shire, Eng­land. He went on to be­come one of the “dis­sent­ing” cler­gy. He was pas­tor of an in­de­pend­ent con­gre­ga­tion and tu­tor of a sem­in­ary for dis­sent­ing min­is­ters at North­amp­ton from 1739 un­til his death. His works in­clude:

• The Rise and Pro­gress of Re­li­gion in the Soul, 1745
• The Fam­i­ly Ex­po­si­tor, 1739-56
• Hymns Found­ed on Var­i­ous Texts in the Ho­ly Script­ures. By the Late Rev­er­end Phil­ip Dod­dridge, D. D., pub­lished post­hu­mous­ly by Job Or­ton (J. Ed­dowes and J. Cot­ton, 1755)
• Scriptural Hymns by the Rev Phil­ip Dod­dridge, com­piled by his great-grand­son, John Dod­dridge Hum­phreys, 1839