Constituency Dates
Southampton 10 June 1737 – 1741
Newport I.o.W. 1747 – 1754, 1761 – 6 Oct. 1765
Family and Education
b. ?1712, s. of Thomas Dummer, sometime dep. master of the great wardrobe, by Alathea Holland. educ. Westminster Feb. 1723, aged 10; B.N.C. Oxf. 1728. m. Elizabeth, da. of John Penton of Penton, Winchester, 1s. suc. fa. 1749.
Offices Held

Clerk of the great wardrobe c. 1730 – d.

Address
Main residence: Cranbury, Hants.
biography text

A wealthy Hampshire landowner, with a reputed income of £20,000 a year, Dummer bought the house and estate of Cranbury Park from the executors of John Conduitt in 1737. He was returned for Southampton at a contested by-election in 1737, voting consistently with the Administration. On 19 Jan. 1741 his friend, Lord Hartington, wrote (to the Duke of Devonshire):

Dummer has no chance for coming in at Southampton and I believe will give it up, but we shall certainly have him in Parliament for some place or other.1B. B. Woodward & T. C. Wilks, Hist. Hants, ii. 99; VCH Hants, iii. 420; Chatsworth mss.

He stood again but was defeated. In 1747 he was brought in by the Administration for Newport. He died 6 Oct. 1765.

Author
P.W.
Volume
Commons 1715-1754
Notes
  • 1. B. B. Woodward & T. C. Wilks, Hist. Hants, ii. 99; VCH Hants, iii. 420; Chatsworth mss.