John Dulanty

John Whelan Dulanty CB CBE (1883 – February 1955) was an Irish diplomat.

[2] In 1906 he supported Winston Churchill's campaign as a Liberal to win the Manchester North West seat.

This connection with Churchill was to prove important in Dulanty's later diplomatic career as High Commissioner in London.

[2] For the next 6 years he served as deputy chairman and managing director of the department store Peter Jones, Ltd.[1] In 1926 he joined the Irish civil service and was appointed Commissioner for Trade in Great Britain.

He had been a leader of the United Irish League of Great Britain under John Redmond and had been busy behind the scenes at the time of the treaty of 1922".