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3 unusual facts about William Arthur Dunkerley


William Arthur Dunkerley

The elder son, Roderic Dunkerley, had several titles published under his own name.

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He had two sons and four daughters, of whom the eldest, and eldest child, Elsie Jeanette, became well known as a children's writer, particularly through her Abbey Series of girls' school stories.

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He was born in Manchester, spent a short time after his marriage in America before moving to Ealing, west London, where he served as dea­con and teach­er at the Ealing Con­gre­ga­tion­al Church from the 1880s, and he then moved to Worthing in Sussex in 1922, where he became the town's mayor.



see also

Roderic Dunkerley

Roderic Dunkerley (1884 – May 1966), born in Ealing, West London, son of William Arthur Dunkerley (John Oxenham).