biography
pronunciation:
[dinwidee]
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| lived:
| (1693–1770)
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| biography:
| Colonial administrator, born in Germiston, near Glasgow, W Scotland, UK. He was appointed collector of customs for Bermuda (1727) and surveyor-general for southern America (1738). Appointed lieutenant-governor of Virginia in 1751, he tried to prevent French occupation of the Ohio district in 1753. In 1755 General Edward Braddock was defeated near Fort Duquesne in Ohio, thus precipitating the French and Indian War (1755–63). Dinwiddie was recalled in 1758. |
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