Who was Governor Dinwiddie?

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(born 1693, Germiston, near Glasgow, Scot. - died July 27, 1770, Clifton, Bristol, Eng.) British colonial administrator. He entered government service in 1727 and was appointed surveyor general for the southern part of America (1739 - 51). As lieutenant governor of Virginia, he sent http://www.answers.com/topic/george-washington in 1753 to prevent the French from controlling the western frontier, an action that helped precipitate the http://www.answers.com/topic/french-and-indian-war. He tried to obtain intercolonial cooperation for the war effort, an issue taken up at the http://www.answers.com/topic/albany-congress. In 1758 he returned to England.