Diamond, Hugh Welch (1808–1886), photographer and asylum superintendent

Gender

M

Signatures Used

• Hugh D.
• H. W. D.

Notes

“Hugh W. Diamond” from NQ 1.6.276–278 to 4.2.2–4

Biographical sources

ODNB; evidently the “Dr. Diamond” described in W. C. Hazlitt, Four Generations of a Literary Family, vol. 2 (1897), p. 33: “On china… he could discourse largely and learnedly…Diamond wrote little; I think that he occasionally contributed to Notes and Queries”

Articles

• Craven Buildings, Drury Lane, writing as Hugh D. — NQ 5.8.106
• Value of China in the Last Century, writing as H. W. D. — NQ 5.6.466