Robert Dymond

• Born: Exeter
• Died: 31 August 1888, Blackslade, Widecombe-in-the-Moor
• Occupation: land surveyor and estate agent in the family firm; antiquary
• Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London: elected 1872
• Best known for: editing and writing much of Things New and Old Concerning the Parish of Widecombe-in-the-Moor (1876)

Robert Dymond, F.S.A., was born in Exeter, the eldest son of Robert Dymond, an estate agent, and belonged to an Exeter family of Quakers. He worked as a land surveyor and estate agent in the family firm, and was a Justice of the Peace for the city from 1872. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1872, and was a member of the Council of the Devonshire Association, honorary secretary of the Devon and Exeter Institution, and President of the Teign Naturalists' Field Club in 1886.

In 1869 he bought Dunstone and the manor of Blackslade on Dartmoor and later lived at Blackslade in the parish of Widecombe-in-the-Moor. In 1876 he edited, and wrote much of, Things New and Old Concerning the Parish of Widecombe-in-the-Moor and its Neighbourhood, compiled to raise money for the restoration of the parish church. Elsewhere his writing covered Exeter parish histories, the Cary family of Cockington, Kingsbridge, Totnes and Dartmoor documents, mostly as papers for the Devonshire Association.

He died at his Widecombe home on 31 August 1888. The Devonshire Association obituary says he died among the hills and tors of the Dartmoor he loved.

Things New and Old Concerning the Parish of Widecombe-in-the-Moor