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Juliana Dodd (1736 - 1778) Inspector for the Foundling Hospital in Berkshire.

Juliana married John Dodd (Whig MP for Reading and a founding Governor of the Foundling Hospital) in 1753, when she was seventeen. she was his second wife and they had three children, three girls and a boy, between 1754 and 1766.

Both were well connected in London political and literary circles. She knew Hester Thrale, Fanny Burney and Dr Johnson, he was a close personal friend of Walpole.

For a decade from 1759, Juliana was an Inspector for the Foundling Hospital in Berkshire. The Inspectors supervised the the work of the wet nurses to whom the Hospital fostered its children in their infancy.

Gillian Clarke in her book the Correspondence of the Foundling Inspectors for Berkshire 1757 - 68 suggests that the role of Juliana Dodd and the other upper class women like her who filled the inspectors roles was unprecedented. The first women to take up these roles were often, like Juliana, wives of the Governors. Their Correspondence reveals considerable administrative accounting and negotiating skills.

Juliana for example strongly resisted a reduction in pay for the wet nurses from two shillings and sixpence to two shillings in 1765.