Sunday, 22 October 2017
1713 Albert Dunn
Constituency : Camborne 1906-10
Albert took over at Camborne from Sir Wilfrid Lawson who had returned to Cumbria. He thought he owed his election to campaigning on the Chinese labour issue.
Albert was educated at Hallam Hall College, Somerset. He became a solicitor in London. He was a councillor on Exeter City Council. He stood for Exeter in 1892. He was Mayor of the city from 1900 to 1902. He was a Congregationalist.
Albert increased his majority in January 1910 but decided not to contest the December election.
Albert raised a company of soldiers from the West Country on the outbreak of war in 1914.
By 1918 Albert had switched his allegiance to Labour and stood at St Ives where he came second to the Liberal incumbent Clifford Cory. He stood there again in 1923 coming third.
He died in 1937 aged 72.
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