Thomas Dunne (Lord Lieutenant)


Sir Thomas Raymond Dunne, was a British military officer who was Lord Lieutenant of Hereford and Worcester, serving from 1977, then from 1998 he was the Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire until 2001 and the Lord Lieutenant of Herefordshire until 2008.

Biography

Dunne was born on 24 October 1933, the son of Philip Russell Rendel Dunne, a military officer and politician. He was educated at Ludgrove School and Eton. He then entered Sandhurst, where he was commissioned into the Royal Horse Guards in 1951, later serving in both Germany and Cyprus.
He left the military in 1959 to manage his family estate, Gatley Park. In 1977, Dunne was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Hereford and Worcester, three years after the administrative counties of Herefordshire and Worcestershire were merged to form Hereford and Worcester.
In the 1995 New Year Honours, he was appointed Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order. In 1998, Hereford and Worcester reverted to its original counties, and Sir Thomas became Lord Lieutenant of Herefordshire and Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire. He retired from the latter on 31 July 2001. He was Chairman of the Association of Lord-Lieutenants. In 2008, he was appointed Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter.
Dunne married Henrietta Rose Crawley, daughter of Cosmo Stafford Crawley. He died on 6 January 2025, at the age of 91.

Family

Sir Thomas was the father of: