(8 July 1837-2 April 1916), Scottish athlete and champion at Scottish games. Born near Aboyne, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.; died London, Eng. His name has entered into GC history through association with R. R. (Big Rory) McLennan, one of his rivals and challengers. Troublesomely, we are told in McLennan’s life in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography (XIII, 661) that these “two men never met,” though perhaps this just means that they did not meet in competition at the time cited; a claim exists that they met and in fact competed at Toronto in 1872. But there were also other Glengarrians, and in the late summer of 1882, A. A. McDonald, of Loch Garry in GC, defeated Donald Dinnie at stone-putting at an athletic contest in Boston, and at stone and shot-putting at Belleville, but was himself defeated by Dinnie at the Caledonian Games at Lucknow, Ont. (Cornwall Freeholder 1, 8, & 15 Sept. 1882) There seems to be no record of Dinnie ever visiting GC. See also T. Jarmy and, for another GC connection with Dinnie, see Dr Donald A. McCrimmon.

Life, by Grant Jarvie, ODict (not in DNB) * McLennan’s challenges to Dinnie, Cornwall Reporter 17 Sept. & 19 Nov. 1881 (repr. McLennan’s Toronto Mail letter) * also on the rivalry of McLennan and Dinnie: Cornwall Gazette 7 Sept. 1870; Anglin 57; GHS Newsletter April 1998; McKenna GN (22 Sept. 2004) and Douglas A. Fales, Glengarry News 13 Oct. 2004 * the late Donald Dinnie remembered in connection with McLennan, with reference to a Montreal Star sketch of 8 May of the late Donald Dinnie’s life, Cornwall Freeholder 11 May 1916