William Dinwiddie

William Dinwiddie (August 23, 1867 – June 17, 1934) was an American journalist, war photographer, writer and colonial administrator in the Philippines. He was born in Charlottesville, Virginia.^[1]

Early life

Dinwiddie took some courses at Columbia University (1881–1883); and then he worked as a customs inspector in Corpus Christi, Texas (1883–1886). He worked for the Bureau of American Ethnology (1886–1895); and then he decided to change careers, becoming a foreign correspondent and photographer.^[2]

War correspondent

Western military attachés and war correspondents with the Japanese forces after the Battle of Shaho (1904): 1. Robert Collins; 2. David Fraser; 3. Capt. Francois Dhani; 4. Capt. James Jardine; 5. Frederick McKenzie; 6. Edward Knight; 7. Charles Victor-Thomas; 8. Oscar Davis; 9. William Maxwell; 10. Robert MacHugh; 11. William Dinwiddie; 12. Frederick Palmer; 13. Capt. Berkeley Vincent; 14. John Bass; 15. Martin Donohoe; 16. Capt. ____;　17. Capt. Carl von Hoffman; 18. ____; 19. ____; 20. ____; 21. Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton; 22. ____; 23. ____; 24. ____; 25. ____.

Dinwiddie was a journalist and a war photographer for Harper's Weekly during the Spanish–American War,^[1] assigned to report and photograph the American campaigns in Cuba and Puerto Rico.^[2]

He was a war correspondent for the New York Herald during the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905).^[3]

Personal life

William Dinwiddie was twice married. In 1891 he married Mary E Towers, daughter of Chatham Moore Towers and Sallie Lewis Nuckolls. They were the parents of two children: Dorothy and Redfield Towers Dinwiddie. In 1901 he married Caroline Miller Brooke, daughter of William S Brooke and Mary Shoemaker Hallowell.

Selected works

• War Sketches in Truth^[2]
• Our New Possessions^[2]
• The War in the Philippines^[2]
• The War in South Africa^[2]

Notes

1. Roth, Mitchel P. and James Stuart Olson. (1997). Historical Dictionary of War Journalism, p. 89.
2. Leonard, John William et al. (1899). Who's who in America, p. 192.
3. Roth, p. 267.

References

• Haverstock, Nathan A. (1996). Fifty Years at the Front: The Life of War Correspondent Frederick Palmer. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's. ISBN 978-1-57488-040-3; OCLC 33041795
• Leonard, John William and Albert Nelson Marquis. (1899). Who's who in America. Chicago: A. N. Marquis. OCLC 35908327
• Roth, Mitchel P. and James Stuart Olson. (1997). Historical Dictionary of War Journalism. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-29171-5
• The Charleston Gazette. Jun 18, 1934. Charleston, West Virginia. Page 2, column 3. "William Dinwiddie, Newspaperman, Dies"