Sir Thomas Raymond Dunne, (born 24 October 1933) was the Lord Lieutenant of

Hereford and Worcester Hereford and Worcester was an English non-metropolitan county created on 1 April 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972 from the areas of the former administrative county of Herefordshire, most of Worcestershire (except Halesowen, Stourbridge ...

from 1977, then (after the historic counties were restored) from 1998 the

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until 2001 and the

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until 2008.

Biography

Sir Thomas was born in 1933, the son of Philip Russell Rendel Dunne, a military officer and politician. He was educated at

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and at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Hereford and Worcester in 1977, three years after the administrative counties of

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and

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were merged to form

. In 1995, he was knighted as a Knight Commander of the

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. In 1998, Hereford and Worcester reverted to its original counties, and Sir Thomas became Lord Lieutenant of Herefordshire and Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire. He retired from the latter on 31 July 2001. He is Chairman of the Lord Lieutenants Association. In 2008, he was made a Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter.

Family

Sir Thomas is the father of: * Camilla Rose Dunne, married to Hon

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/ref> * Philip Martin Dunne, Conservative Party

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since 2005. * Letitia Dunne. * Nicholas Dunne, married to Lady Jasmine Cavendish, daughter of the 12th Duke of Devonshire

Arms

References

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