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THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT ALSO TO LOOK AT KIP FENN, A MAJOR NOVEL ABOUT THE 21st CENTURY - freely available on this site Dyott, William ___ 1761-1846 ___ British ___ soldier BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY There is no information about Dyott readily available on the internet. He was a soldier who served in Ireland, Nova Scotia, West Indies and Egypt. He also travelled on the Continent, and he took part in the disastrous Walcheren Expedition, in which the British tried to help the Austrians defend themselves against Napoleon on what was then an island in the mouth of the Scheldt estuary. In Nova Scotia he met Prince William (later William IV), and, later, he was an aide to George III. He kept a diary from the age of 20 until the year before he died, filling 16 volumes. No biography link DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS 1781-1845 ___ military political travel people family farming Ireland Canada Caribbean Egypt WEB TEXT LINKS one extract ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service ___ possibly SOME PUBLISHED TITLES Dyott's Diary May 2005 THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS Please email if you have any corrections, additions or comments.

IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS: 1) The first line of basic information may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown, or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British' a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies. 4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges, and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising. I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries.

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