Background
Dunn was born in Basingstoke in Hampshire the son of George Freeman Dunn.
Dunn was born in Basingstoke in Hampshire the son of George Freeman Dunn.
He was educated at Queen Mary's School, Basingstoke.
He was also a Director of the British American Trading Company, Limited a merchant banking and Investment Company. In 1909, he was called to the bar at Gray’s Inn. Hemel Hempstead
Dunn first stood for Parliament at the 1923 general election when he was selected as Liberal candidate for the Hertfordshire seat of Hemel Hempstead.
In a good year for the Liberal Party, reunited after the splits of the Lloyd George and Asquith rivalries, Dunn defeated the sitting Conservative Member of Parliament, J C C Davidson, in a nail-bitingly close straight fight by the margin of 17 votes.
Faversham by-election
Dunn got a chance to re-enter the House of Commons in January 1928 when he was selected as Liberal candidate in a by-election at Faversham in Kent, following the death of the sitting Conservative Member of Parliament, Sir Granville Wheler. In a four cornered contest with Conservative, Labour and Independent Conservative opponents, Dunn came third with 18.6% of the poll.
Chichester
Dunn tried once more for Parliament, this time at Chichester in West Sussex at the 1929 general election. However in a straight fight with the Tories the sitting Member of Parliament, John Sewell Courtauld, held the seat comfortably with a majority of 8,880 votes.
Dunn was for twenty years Chairman of the, founded in 1845 by John Robert Cuffley, first in Wanstead, later moving to Pinner in Middlesex.
The schools closed in 1967 but The Royal Pinner School Foundation succeeded the Schools to provide assistance in the education of children of commercial travellers, sales and technical representatives and manufacturers" agents where need can be shown. Dunn died at his home, Hazards, Enton, Godalming, Surrey on 7 December 1954, aged 80 years.
At the 1924 general election, the Tory Party had recovered its position and with Labour also standing a candidate, Davidson regained his seat with a majority of nearly 5,000.
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He was a member of the London Stock Exchange.