John Dyott [Dumb Dyott]

(1606-1664)

LBT ID: JoDyott1664	B/BAP: 1606 DIED: 1664
SOURCES: Peter W. Jackson and Raymond Lee, Deaf Lives: Deaf People in History (2001) 55
The deaf and dumb sniper who killed Lord Brooke with a shot from the tower of Lichfield Cathedral.
REFERENCES TO John Dyott [Dumb Dyott]: Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter VI. Found 1: ¶ 11