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3 unusual facts about John Dunning


John Dunning

Jack Dunning (John Angus Dunning, 1903–1971), New Zealand Test cricketer

John Dunning, 1st Baron Ashburton

On 14 May 1778 Dunning seconded Sir George Savile's motion for leave to bring in a bill for the relief of Roman Catholics; and it was on his amendment that the house unanimously voted that a monument should be erected in Westminster Abbey to the memory of the Earl of Chatham.

He was first noticed in English politics when he wrote a notice in 1762 defending the British East India Company merchants against their Dutch rivals.



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Cordelia Botkin

John Dunning, his career destroyed by the revelations during the trial, had died two years previously in Philadelphia.