Dunn, Gilman

Full NameDUNN, Rev John Gilman Sharp, M.B.E. (1960), O.B.E.(1966) Last edited by: Andrew Smith

Date of Birth25 November 1887 Last edited by: Andrew Smith

Date of Death10 May 1979 Last edited by: Andrew Smith

Biography

born 25 November 1887
- son of David DUNN and Elizabeth Gilman JAGOE (married 1883)
married 27 March 1913 Louisa Lewis GIBSON, born 24 July 1889, died 24 April 1972
- daughter of Lewis DUNN and Agnes
- Mrs Dunn was President of the Girl’s Life Brigade in the 1930s.
- child Ian Gilman DUNN 1915
died 10 May 1979

Educated at Canterbury University and Otago University; worked for the Justice Department for seven years, and then practised law in Napier and Patea.
Theological Hall 1921-1923;
New College, Edinburgh 1923-1924

Ordained Kaikoura 3 February 1925
Green Island, Dunedin 23 January 1928
Opoho, Dunedin 5 December 1940
Wadestown, Wellington 1 August 1945 — retired 31 March 1953

Clerk of the Synod of Otago and Southland 1938; Clerk of Assembly 1945-55; President, Director, and Secretary, British Sailors Society (New Zealand); Chairman of the Church Property Trustees 1960-63; Chairman of Corso 1953-66; pioneer in the Multiple Sclerosis Society - first President Wellington 1964, first National President and later Treasurer; authority on Church law and procedure.
Last edited by: Andrew Smith

Rev J. Gilman S. Dunn, circa 1935.
P-S3-36

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