Dinwiddie, ROBERT, colonial governor of Virginia, was born in Scotland about 1690, and was governor of Virginia from 1752 to 1758, when he was recalled, after precipitating the French and Indian war, and by his ill-temper, avarice, and incompetence, rendering himself generally unbearable to the Americans. He died in 1770.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 825
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