Bill Newton Dunn
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| Member of the European Parliament for East Midlands |
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In office 1 May 1999 – 2 July 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Andrew Lewer |
| Member of the European Parliament for Lincolnshire |
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In office 7 June 1979 – 9 June 1994 |
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| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Veronica Hardstaff |
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3 October 1941 Greywell, Hampshire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Liberal Democrats |
| Other political affiliations |
Conservative (until 2000) |
| Children |
Tom Newton Dunn Daisy Newton Dunn |
| Alma mater |
Marlborough College Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge INSEAD |
| Website | http://www.libdemeuro.com/ |
William "Bill" Francis Newton Dunn (born 3 October 1941) is a British politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament for Lincolnshire from 1979 to 1994 and for the East Midlands from 1979 to 2014. A member of Conservative Party until 2000, he defected to the Liberal Democrats over the Conservatives' Euroscepticism.
Dunn was born in Greywell, Hampshire and attended the independent Marlborough College in Wiltshire from 1955–59, then gained a Diploma from the University of Paris (the Sorbonne) in 1960. He completed an MA in Natural Sciences (Physics and Chemistry) in 1963 at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He gained a tri-lingual MBA from the INSEAD Business School at Fontainebleau, which no doubt fuelled his interest in European matters where he studied from 1965–66. From 1963–79, he worked in United Kingdom industry.
Prior to its uniform adoption of proportional representation in 1999, the United Kingdom used first-past-the-post for the European elections in England, Scotland and Wales. The European Parliament constituencies used under that system were smaller than the later regional constituencies and only had one Member of the European Parliament each.
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