Sunday 27 January 2013
36 Sir William Dunbar
Constituency : Wigtown Burghs 1857-65
Sir William was trained in the law but apparently never practised.
William appears to have been a finance expert. He was made a Lord of the Treasury in 1859 then Keeper of the Privy Seal to the Prince of Wales. He spoke against proposed changes to the way Scotland was governed through the Lord Advocate.
He left Parliament in 1865 to take up the post of Commissioner for Auditng Public Accounts and was subsequently Comptroller and Auditor General from 1867 to 1888.
He died in 1888 aged 77.
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