Charles William Dymond

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Charles William Dymond
Born(1832-08-04)4 August 1832
Heavitree, Exeter
Died(1915-02-07)7 February 1915
Near Sawrey, Claife
NationalityEnglish
OccupationCivil engineer
Known forExploring Worlebury Camp

Charles William Dymond (4 August 1832 - 7 February 1915) was an English civil engineer and antiquarian.

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Family

Dymond was born on 4 August 1832 [1] as the oldest child of William and Frances Dymond. His father was a schoolmaster.

On 11 July 1860, Dymond married Mary Esther Wilson. They had two children, Philip William Dymond (born 26 August 1862 at Bootle) and Helen Margaret Dymond (born 23 January 1864 at Bootle). [1]

Career

Dymond was a civil engineer. [2] Dymond became a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1870. He is remembered more for his antiquarian interests. From 1851 to 1852, he explored Worlebury Camp, [3] an Iron Age camp in Somerset. He also took in interest in sites in North-West England. In 1901, he excavated Swinside Stone circle together with W. G. Collingwood, which he had already surveyed in 1872, [4] and published a plan in the Journal of the British Archaeological Association. [5]

He had an interest in Welsh culture and joined the Gorsedd of Bards of the Isle of Britain in 1899 under the name Adamant

Dymond died in Near Sawrey in 1915.

Honours

UK

Dymond became a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1879. [6] In 1900, he was elected Honorary Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. [7]

France

He was elected member of the Société préhistorique française in 1909.

Publications

He published treatises on prehistoric monuments and on religious issues.

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References

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  2. The Annual Monitor for 1916, Being an Obituary of Members of the Society of Friends in Great Britain and Ireland, p. 25-38 ().
  3. Dymond, Charles William (1886). Worlebury, an ancient Stronghold in the County of Somerset. John Wright and Co. Printer, Stone Bridge.
  4. Aubrey Burl: Great Stone Circles, fables, fiction facts. New Haven, Yale University Press 1999, p. 175. ISBN   0-300-07689-4
  5. A. L. Lewis, On three Stone Circles in Cumberland, with some further Observations on the Relation of Stone Circles to adjacent Hills and outlying Stones. Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 15, 1886, 475
  6. The Annual Monitor for 1916, Being an Obituary of Members of the Society of Friends in Great Britain and Ireland, p. 30
  7. Marchand, Jane (1993). "Sabine Baring-Gould, Archaeologist" (PDF). SBGAS Newsletter. Sabine Baring-Gould Appreciation Society. p. 14. Retrieved 15 October 2018. In 1900 they were both elected Honorary Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Others elected that year included Charles W. Dymond...