John Dunwoody

John Elliot Orr Dunwoody CBE (3 June 1929 – 26 January 2006) was a British Labour politician.

Dunwoody contested the safe Conservative seat of Tiverton in 1959, and came close to winning Plymouth Sutton in 1964, losing by just 410 votes in a seat that David Owen would later hold for several years for Labour.

He became Member of Parliament for Falmouth and Camborne at the 1966 general election, succeeding Labour's Harold Hayman in a long-term three-way marginal.

From 1996 he was Vice-Chairman of the Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth Local Medical Committee.

She also became a Labour MP in 1966 and had a long parliamentary career, till her death in 2008.