Jack Lawson Dunfee (26 October 1901 – 13 September 1975) was a British motor racing driver, theatrical impresario, and later farmer who was one of the "

Bentley Boys The Bentley Boys were a group of wealthy British motorists who drove Bentley sports cars to victory in the 1920s and kept the marque's reputation for high performance alive. In 1925, as the marque floundered, Bentley Boy Woolf Barnato bought th ...

" at

Brooklands Brooklands was a motor racing circuit and aerodrome built near Weybridge in Surrey, England, United Kingdom. It opened in 1907 and was the world's first purpose-built 'banked' motor racing circuit as well as one of Britain's first airfields, ...

before the Second World War.

Motor racing

Dunfee was one of four sons of Colonel Vickers Dunfee, and the older brother of

Clive Dunfee Beresford Clive Dunfee (18 June 1904 – 24 September 1932) was a British racing driver, one of the "Bentley Boys" of the 1930s, who was killed in a dramatic accident at Brooklands. Dunfee was the third of four sons of Colonel Vickers Dunfee an ...

. In 1932 the Dunfee brothers raced the BRDC 500 Miles Race at Brooklands, in the "Old Number One" Speed Six Bentley, with a brand new 8-litre engine installed. After the first driving stint Jack Dunfee was in fourth place when he entered the pits. Clive took over, and shortly after, in passing

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's Bugatti, he went too high up the banking, putting the wheel of his car over the lip. The car cartwheeled over the top, hit a large tree and plunged down through the trees to the road below. Clive was thrown out and killed instantly.

Marriage

In 1939 Jack Dunfee married actress and dancer

Sandra Storme Sandra Storme ( Eileen Violet Needham) (22 December 1914 – 1 December 1979) was an English dancer and actress, known for the films ''Murder in Soho'' (1939) and ''Q Planes'' (1939). Biography She was born Eileen Violet Needham in London on ...

, but the marriage ended in divorce. In 1953"The Poster Bride Weds", ''Daily Mirror'', 20 July 1953, p. 4. he married model Audrey White, but that marriage also ended in divorce.

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*http://www.racingsportscars.com/driver/Jack-Dunfee-GB.html *http://bufvc.ac.uk/allbufvc/search.php?q=Jack+Dunfee English racing drivers Brooklands people Bentley Boys 1901 births 1975 deaths 20th-century British farmers European Championship drivers 20th-century English sportsmen {{England-sport-bio-stub