Bill Newton Dunn

Bill Newton Dunn
Member of the European Parliament
In office 2 July 2019 – 31 January 2020
Preceded by	Rupert Matthews
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Constituency	East Midlands
In office 1 May 1999 – 2 July 2014
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Andrew Lewer
Constituency	East Midlands
In office 7 June 1979 – 9 June 1994
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Veronica Hardstaff
Constituency	Lincolnshire
Personal details
Born	(1941-10-03) 3 October 1941 (age 83) Greywell, Hampshire, England
Political party	Liberal Democrat
Other political affiliations	Conservative (until 2000)
Spouse	Anna Terez Árki
Children	Tom Newton Dunn Daisy Newton Dunn
Education	Marlborough College
Alma mater	Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge INSEAD

William Francis Newton Dunn (born 3 October 1941) is a British politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1979 to 1994, 1999 to 2014 and again from 2019 until the UK's withdrawal from the EU in 2020. He resigned from the Conservative Party in 2000 in protest of its euroscepticism and joined the Liberal Democrats.

Newton Dunn first represented Lincolnshire as an MEP (1979–1994), then the East Midlands (1999–2014; 2019–2020).^[1]