Ronald Fielding Dodd was born on the Isle of Man in 1891. He was articled to the Isle of Man architect Armitage Rigby (1860-1910) in Douglas, Isle of Man and trained at the School of Architecture, Liverpool University, where he was awarded a First Class Diploma and in 1911 the "Lever Prize".
After serving in the Army during World War One, he practised as an architect in Oxford, Oxfordshire. He was senior partner in the Oxford practice R. Fielding & Stevens, which subsequently became R. Fielding Dodd, Best & Stevens
Dodd was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1920) and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects FRIBA) on 1929. During the 1920s he was Honorary Secretary of the Berkshire. Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Architectural Association.
He died on 30 April 1958. His address at the time of his death was given as Byway, Blodon, Oxfordshire.
War Memorial, King William's College, Isle of Man (1922); Churchill Hospital, Oxford (1942); Miners' hostel in Wales (1945); residential buildings at St. Peter's College, Oxford (1929-30); South side of the quadrangle at St Edmund Hall, Oxford (1933-34); Art Building at Stowe School in Stowe, Buckinghamshire (1934-35); the frontage of Acland Hospital in North Oxford, Oxforshure (1937); and alterations to Chippinghurst Manor, near Little Milton, Oxfordshire (1937)
‘The Churchill Hospital, Home Counties’. Architecture Illustrated June 1942 pp. 70-75 [Designed by R. F. Dodd]
Directory of British Architects 1834-1914. Compiled by Antonia Brodie, et al. Volume 1: A-K. London; New York: British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects/Continuum, 2001
‘Extension to St. Peter's Hall, Oxford’. The Builder 23 October 1953 pp. 618-621 [Extension to St. Peter's Hall, Oxford by Dodd & Stevens]
‘Hutted hospital near Oxford’ Hospital & Nursing Home Management April 1942 pp. 72-73 [Hutted hospital near Oxford designed by R. Fielding Dodd for the Ministry of Health]
‘Miners' hostel in Wales’. Building May 1945 pp. 137-139 [Miners’ hostel in Wales containing accommodation for approximately 700 "Bevin Boys" designed by R. F. Dodd]
‘Nurses' Home at Warneford Mental Hospital, Oxford’. Architect & Building News 4 August 1939 p. 138 [Designed by R. F. Dodd]
‘Obituary’. The Builder vol. 194, 9 May 1958 p. 867
‘The Sheldonian Theatre repaired’. RIBA Journal vol. 45, 8 November 1937 p. 26 [Architect: R. F. Dodd]
‘The Sheldonian Theatre repaired’. RIBA Journal vol. 45, 22 November 1937 p.100 [Architect: R. F. Dodd]
‘St. Mary the Virgin, Oxford: new chancel roof in concrete’. Building February 1948 pp. 54-55 [Architects: R. Fielding Dodd, Best & Stevens]