Full NameDUNN, Rev John Gilman Sharp, M.B.E. (1960), O.B.E.(1966)Date of Birth25 November 1887Date of Death10 May 1979Biography
born 25 November 1887
son of David DUNN and Elizabeth Gilman JAGOE (married 1883)
married 27 March 1913 Louisa Lewis GIBSON, born 24 July 1889, died 24 April 1972
daughter of Lewis DUNN and Agnes
Mrs Dunn was President of the Girl’s Life Brigade in the 1930s.
child Ian Gilman DUNN 1915
died 10 May 1979
Educated at Canterbury University and Otago University; worked for the Justice Department for seven years, and then practised law in Napier and Patea.
Theological Hall 1921-1923;
New College, Edinburgh 1923-1924
Ordained Kaikoura 3 February 1925
Green Island, Dunedin 23 January 1928
Opoho, Dunedin 5 December 1940
Wadestown, Wellington 1 August 1945 — retired 31 March 1953
Clerk of the Synod of Otago and Southland 1938; Clerk of Assembly 1945-55; President, Director, and Secretary, British Sailors Society (New Zealand); Chairman of the Church Property Trustees 1960-63; Chairman of Corso 1953-66; pioneer in the Multiple Sclerosis Society - first President Wellington 1964, first National President and later Treasurer; authority on Church law and procedure.