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3 unusual facts about Dyce


Andrew oilfield

This small Palaeocene field is still being developed by a dedicated team at BP's North Sea headquarters in Dyce, though it has been producing through two wells since 2006.

David Moore Crook

He served with 41 OTU in September, then 8 (Coastal) OTU at Dyce.

Dyce

The area of Aberdeen has sports facilities including the local junior football team Dyce F.C who currently play in the Scottish Junior Football Association North Region and the cricket team.


Alexander Dyce

Dyce was closely connected with several literary societies, and undertook the publication of Kempe's Nine Days' Wonder for the Camden Society; and the old plays of Timon of Athens and Sir Thomas More were published by him for the Shakespeare Society.

Charles Heath Wilson

While in Edinburgh Wilson wrote with William Dyce, a pamphlet addressed to Lord Meadowbank, The Best Means of ameliorating the Arts and Manufactures of Scotland.

David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre

Sombre was great-grandson of a mercenary soldier Walter Reinhardt alias Sombre, whose second wife was the famous Begum Samru who made her grandson-in-law George Sombre, and then his son Dyce Sombre her heirs.

Pegwell Bay, Kent – a Recollection of October 5th 1858

The beach was frequented by Charles Darwin and his family, and On the Origin of Species was published in 1859, while Dyce was working on the painting.


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