David Seth Doggett (January 26, 1810 – October 29, 1880) was an American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, elected in 1866. Biography Early life David Seth Doggett was born on January 26, 1810, in Lancaster County, Virginia. He was descended from the Rev. Benjamin Doggett, a Church of England immigrant to Virginia about 1650, Rector of White Chapel Church in Lancaster County. (Rev. Benjamin Doggett immigrated to Virginia in 1669/70 from England according to most sources.) He had Revolutionary forebearers, and his parents were Methodists. His father was a lawyer. He was educated at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. He began the Law, but changed to the ministry. Career He joined the Virginia Annual Conference in 1829, serving as an itinerant minister, traveling through the Southern states. In 1866, he accepted a professorship at Randolph–Macon College. Death He died on October 29, 1880. See also List of bishops of the United Methodist Church References Cyclopaedia of Methodism, Matthew Simpson, D.D., LL.D., Ed., (Revised Edition.) Philadelphia, Louis H. Everts, 1880. Leete, Frederick DeLand, Methodist Bishops. Nashville, The Methodist Publishing House, 1948. External links 1810 births 1880 deaths American Methodist Episcopal, South bishops American religion academics Converts to Methodism from Anglicanism American theologians Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South University of Virginia alumni People from Lancaster County, Virginia Randolph–Macon College faculty 19th-century American clergy