Charles William Dymond


Charles William Dymond was an English civil engineer and antiquarian.

Family

Dymond was born on 4 August 1832 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 and Helen Margaret Dymond.

Career

Dymond was a civil engineer. From 1851 to 1852, he explored Worlebury Camp, an Iron Age camp. In 1901, he excavated the Swinside Stone circle together with Collingwood, which he had already surveyed in 1872, and published a plan in the Journal of the British Archaeological Association.
Dymond became a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1870 and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1879, joined the Gorsedd of Bards of the Isle of Britain in 1899 under the name Adamant and was elected member of the Société préhistorique française in 1909. In 1900, he was elected Honorary Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
He published treatises on prehistoric monuments and on religious issues.
Dymond died in Near Sawrey in 1915.