William Fisher Peach Dimond (11 December 1781 – c1837) was a playwright of the early 19th-century who wrote about thirty works for the theatre, including plays, operas, musical entertainments and melodramas. The British Critic approved of his Adrian and Orilla, or, A Mother's Vengeance but thought the dialogue "generally too florid, bordering frequently upon affectation, and occasionally … not far removed from nonsense". The review by the British Critic of Dimond's patriotic extravaganza The Royal Oak (1811) said: William Hazlitt found in Dimond's plays: