PHILIP, D.D., an eminent Presbyterian minister, was the son of Daniel Doddridge an oilman in London, where he was born on the 26th of June 1702; and having completed the study of the classics in several schools, was in 1719 placed under the tuition of the reverend Mr John Jennings, who kept an academy at Kilworth in Leicestershire. He was first settled as a minister at Kilworth, where he preached to a small congregation in an obscure village; but, on Mr Jennings's death, succeeded to the care of his academy; and soon after was chosen minister of a large congregation of Dissenters at Northampton, to which he removed his academy, and where the number of his pupils increased. He instructed his pupils with the freedom and tenderness of a father; and never expected nor desired that they should blindly follow his sentiments, but encouraged them to judge for themselves. He checked any appearance of bigotry and uncharitableness, and endeavoured to cure them by showing what might be said in defence of those principles they disliked. He died at Lisbon, whither he went for the recovery of his health; and his remains were interred in the burying-ground belonging to the British factory there, and a handsome monument was erected to his memory in the meeting-house at Northampton, at the expense of the congregation, on which is an epitaph written by Gilbert West, Esq. He wrote, 1. Free Thoughts on the most probable means of reviving the Dissenting Interest. 2. The Life of Colonel James Gardiner. 3. Sermons on the Education of Children. 4. The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul. 5. The Family Expositor, in 6 vols. 8vo. &c. And since the author's death, a volume of his hymns has been published, and his Theological Lectures. Several of his works have been translated into Dutch, German, Doddridge and French.