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Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Archibald Davis Dawnay (c.1842 - 23 April 1919) was a businessman and local politician in the Wandsworth area. He was the head of Archibald Dawnay & Sons Limited, an engineering company with premises in Battersea and Cardiff. In 1906 he was elected to Wandsworth Borough Council as a Municipal Reform Party councillor for Clapham North Ward. In 1908 he was elected Mayor of Wandsworth, and was serving his tenth consecutive term as mayor when he died. He unveiled the memorial statue to Edward VIII at Tooting Broadway 4 November 1911 - a picture is here [1].

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  • Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Archibald Davis Dawnay (c.1842 - 23 April 1919) was a businessman and local politician in the Wandsworth area. He was the head of Archibald Dawnay & Sons Limited, an engineering company with premises in Battersea and Cardiff. In 1906 he was elected to Wandsworth Borough Council as a Municipal Reform Party councillor for Clapham North Ward. In 1908 he was elected Mayor of Wandsworth, and was serving his tenth consecutive term as mayor when he died. He unveiled the memorial statue to Edward VIII at Tooting Broadway 4 November 1911 - a picture is here [1].
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  • Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Archibald Davis Dawnay (c.1842 - 23 April 1919) was a businessman and local politician in the Wandsworth area. He was the head of Archibald Dawnay & Sons Limited, an engineering company with premises in Battersea and Cardiff. In 1906 he was elected to Wandsworth Borough Council as a Municipal Reform Party councillor for Clapham North Ward. In 1908 he was elected Mayor of Wandsworth, and was serving his tenth consecutive term as mayor when he died. He unveiled the memorial statue to Edward VIII at Tooting Broadway 4 November 1911 - a picture is here [1]. He was mayor throughout World War I, and was largely responsible for the raising of the 13th (Wandsworth) Battalion, East Surrey Regiment. He was knighted at the end of the war in 1918. He died at his home in Clapham Park on 23 April 1919 from an embolism, probably due to a fall getting into a carriage a few days earlier, aged 76. More information here [ ]; for his support for the local rifle club see [2]
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