Education
He attended the independent Marlborough College in Wiltshire from 1955-1959, then gained a Diploma from the University of Paris (the Sorbonne) in 1960. He completed an Master of Arts in Natural Sciences (Physics and Chemistry) in 1963 at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He gained a tri-lingual Master of Business Administration from the European Institute of Business Administration (Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires) Business School at Fontainebleau, which no doubt fuelled his interest in European matters where he studied from 1965-1966.
Career
From 1963-1979, he worked in United Kingdom industry. He was a Conservative Party Member of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1994 for Lincolnshire. After a spell out of the Parliament, he was re-elected a Conservative Member of the European Parliament for the East Midlands in 1999.
Newton Dunn was elected as a Liberal Democratic Member of the European Parliament for the first time in the European elections, 2004.
He claims to have had the highest attendance record of all the United Kingdom MEPs when elected. Newton Dunn began to use the now much-used phrase Democratic deficit in his pamphlet in the 1980s.
This phrase first appeared in the manifesto of the Young European Federalists adopted at their congress in Berlin in 1977. In 2010 he signed the Spinelli Group Manifesto in favour of a Federal Europe.
On 4 July 2012, Newton Dunn was the only British Member of the European Parliament to vote in favour of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement).
Only 38 MEPs voted with Newton Dunn (earning them the title "the Dirty Thirty-nine"), while 478 voted against the treaty. The biggest defeat in the history of the European Union. Newton Dunn was not re-elected as a Liberal Democratic Member of the European Parliament in the European elections, 2014.
Politics
He was a Member of the European Parliament for the East Midlands for the Liberal Democrats until 25 May 2014. He defected to the Liberal Democrats in 2000 because he felt that the Conservatives were increasingly negative towards the prospect of Britain playing a leading role in Europe.
