George Dodd

George Dodd (18 September 1808 – 21 January 1881) was an English journalist and writer. His best known work was The Food of London (1856). Works Dodd worked as assistant to Charles Knight, particularly on the presentation of statistics. Encyclopedias Dodd wrote articles on industrial art in the Penny Cyclopædia, the English Cyclopædia and supplements. He edited and wrote in the Cyclopædia of the Industry of all Nations (1851). Periodicals Dodd contributed to Knight's serial publications: the Penny Magazine, London, The Land we live in, and others. When Knight retired as a general publisher, Dodd became associated with Messrs. Chambers, and contributed to their serial publications. For over thirty years he contributed one or more papers to the Companion to the Almanac.