Robert Dinwiddie (1692 - 1770) was a Scotland-born British bureaucrat who served as lieutenant governor of Virginia from 1751 to 1758. Soon after his appointment as lieutenant governor, Dinwiddie placed a fee on every legal title to land, enraging Virginians. The Crown compromised, and the fee became applicable only to land tracts of one hundred acres or more. Dinwiddie's expansionist policies antagonized the French, helping to instigate the French and Indian War. He resigned the office in 1758.