John Dunwoody
Dr John Dunwoody Frank Hayman | |
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Succeeded by | David Mudd |
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Born | 3 June 1929 |
Died | 26 January 2006 Béziers, France | (aged 76)
Nationality | British |
Political party | Labour |
Spouse(s) | Gwyneth Dunwoody (1954–1975) Evelyn Borner (1979–2006) |
Children | Tamsin Dunwoody and two sons |
Alma mater | King's College London, and Westminster Hospital Medical School |
John Elliot Orr Dunwoody CBE (3 June 1929 – 26 January 2006) was a British Labour politician.
Dunwoody was educated at
Dunwoody contested the safe Conservative seat of Tiverton in 1959, and came close to winning Plymouth Sutton in 1964, losing by just 410 votes in a seat that David Owen would later hold for several years for Labour. He became Member of Parliament for Falmouth and Camborne at the 1966 general election, succeeding Labour's Harold Hayman in a long-term three-way marginal. He was a health minister from 1969 until 1970. A well-regarded orator at Labour Party Conference, Dunwoody was spoken of as a future leader of the Party. However, he lost his seat in 1970 and did not return to Parliament.
Dunwoody had campaigned hard for a total ban on smoking, before its negative health effects were universally recognised, and became the first director of
Dunwoody married