Draft:Clan Dinwiddie
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Clan Dinwiddie (also spelt as Dinwoodie, Dunwiddie, Dunwethy, Donewithy, Dunwedy and Dunwoody) is a Scottish Clan hailing from the Lockerbie area of the Lowlands[1][unreliable source?], as of the dissolution of the Lairdship of Dinwiddie in 1620 the head of the clan has been the chief of the Maxwell Clan, however as the Maxwells do not currently have a chief, Clan Dinwiddie could be considered an armigerous clan.
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Motto | Sunt Hostes Met (How My Enemies Have Increased), Alternate Motto: Ubi Libertas Ibi Patrium (Where Liberty prevails There Is My Country). |
Seat | Dinwoodie Hall (destroyed) |
Notable Members | |
Robert Dinwiddie (1693–1770), British lieutenant governor of colonial Virginia | |
Lawrence Dinwiddie of Germiston (1696–1764) 18th-century Scottish tobacco lord, Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1742 to 1744. | |
James Dinwiddie (astronomer) (1746 - 1815), Scottish natural philosopher | |
James Dunwoody Bulloch (1823–1901) Confederacy's chief foreign agent in Great Britain during the American Civil War. | |
James Dinwiddie (surgeon), Confederate military surgeon | |
William Dinwiddie (1867–1934), American journalist, war photographer, writer and colonial administrator in the Philippines | |
Bruce Dinwiddy (1946–2021), governor of the Cayman Islands | |
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