His father, Daniel Doddridge, was a London merchant, and his mother the orphan daughter of the Rev. John Bauman, a Lutheran clergyman who had fled from Prague to escape religious persecution, and had held for some time the mastership of the grammar school at Kingston-upon-Thames.
He afterwards went to a private school in London, and in 1712 to the grammar school at Kingston-upon-Thames.
He traveled from the Victorian suburban gentility of Kingston-upon-Thames to the wild California of the 1870s.
Gentleman that compared to Hull, Kingston-upon-Thames looks rather leafy.
