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Docker was born at Paxton House, [[Smethwick]], [[Staffordshire]], the son of Ralph Docker and his second wife, Sarah Maria (1830-1890), daughter of horse dealer Richard Sankey. His first wife was Sarah's elder sister, Mary Ann (1826-1849), with whom he had three daughters. Following some years as a widower, Ralph married Sarah, with whom he had five sons and four daughters. Ralph Docker was a solicitor in practice at [[Birmingham]] and Smethwick who took on a large number of public appointments, including Coroner for North Worcestershire; at the time of his retirement, two days before his death in 1887, Ralph Docker was the oldest and longest-serving Coroner in England.<ref name="Dudley Docker 1984, p. 11">''Dudley Docker: The Life and Times of a Trade Warrior'', [[R. P. T. Davenport-Hines]], Cambridge University Press, 1984, p. 11</ref> The Docker family's fortunes were set in motion by Thomas Docker, a Moseley brass founder; the descendants of his six sons and three daughters were established in the Midlands as professionals or gentlemen of private means. Despite Dudley Docker's own strong family loyalties, he was not given to ancestor-worship or devotion to genealogy; the notably brief pedigrees in the Burke's Landed Gentry editions of 1921 and 1937 in which he appears as head of the family of 'Docker of the Gables' contain numerous errors supplied by Docker himself- he provided erroneous information relating to the dates of his father's birth and death, his mother's death, and the name of his maternal grandfather.<ref name="Dudley Docker 1984, p. 11"/>
Docker attended [[King Edward's School, Birmingham]] but appears to have resisted formal schooling and left early. He was equally discontented when he went into his father's office to study law. In 1881 he left his father's firm and went into the varnish business with his brother William.<ref name="books.google.com">[https://books.google.com/books?id=kHx7hVRhKfYC
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}}</ref> He was also a director of the [[Midland Bank]] from 1912 until his death.<ref name="books.google.com"/> He was one of the founders of the [[Federation of British Industry]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=SM-Sp8OxcAsC
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