Edward Marten Dunne

Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Marten Dunne (27 August 1864 – 23 February 1944) was a British army officer and Liberal politician.

His maternal grandfather was General Sir Edward Lechmere Graves Russell of Ashford Hall, Ludlow, Shropshire.

On the outbreak of the Second Boer War in the same year, he volunteered to return to the army, becoming brigade major at Aldershot.

[1][3] On the outbreak of the First World War, Dunne was appointed to the staff of the 50th (Northumbrian) Division in Newcastle upon Tyne.

[1] Following the war, he settled back into country life in Herefordshire, where he was appointed a deputy lieutenant on 15 January 1919.