William Dinwiddie (August 23, 1867 – June 17, 1934) was an American journalist, war photographer, writer and colonial administrator in the Philippines.
[1] 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] 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.
They were the parents of two children: Dorothy and Redfield Towers Dinwiddie.