John Dunn Jr. (21 January 1830 – 6 February 1892), the son of John Dunn Sr. was brought into the flour milling partnership with his father in 1852, he resigned in 1862 to work as a Wesleyan missionary in Fiji but was forced by

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to return in 1864. In January 1865 the Sydney Conference removed his right to the title "Reverend", giving health problems as the reason, and against his wishes, and despite a popular petition, he was removed from the Clarendon circuit in 1865. He was later a lay preacher on the

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circuit. On the retirement of his father in May 1889 was appointed head of the company; sons Frederick Williams Dunn (1863–1946), Alfred Calvert Dunn (1867–1957) and Eustace Alexandria Andrew Dunn (1869–1928) managed the company after his death.

Politics

He served as a member of in both houses of the

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: *9 June 1875 – 10 April 1878

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member for Barossa *7 July 1880 – 4 May 1888 Legislative Council

Family

John Dunn Jnr. married Elizabeth Williams (1835–1928), sister of his father's second wife, on 25 July 1855 at the residence of John Williams, North Adelaide, South Australia. They had fourteen children, including the architect

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(1865–1942), who designed the former

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, built in 1901.Architecture Museum, UniSA > Architects of South Australia > Hedley Allen Dunn
Accessed 10 June 2014.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dunn, John People from the Borough of West Devon Settlers of South Australia Australian flour millers and merchants Members of the South Australian House of Assembly Members of the South Australian Legislative Council 1830 births 1892 deaths 19th-century Australian politicians 19th-century Australian businesspeople