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].