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3 unusual facts about William Arthur Dunkerley


William Arthur Dunkerley

The elder son, Roderic Dunkerley, had several titles published under his own name.

He had two sons and four daughters, of whom the eldest, and eldest child, Elsie Jeanette, became well known as a children's writer, particularly through her Abbey Series of girls' school stories.

He was born in Manchester, spent a short time after his marriage in America before moving to Ealing, west London, where he served as dea­con and teach­er at the Ealing Con­gre­ga­tion­al Church from the 1880s, and he then moved to Worthing in Sussex in 1922, where he became the town's mayor.



see also

Roderic Dunkerley

Roderic Dunkerley (1884 – May 1966), born in Ealing, West London, son of William Arthur Dunkerley (John Oxenham).