Dummer (surname)

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Dummer is a surname of Anglo-Saxon origin. It means those from Dummer, Hampshire.

Notables with this name include

Edmund Dummer (naval engineer) (1651–1713), Surveyor of the Navy (1692–1699) and Member of Parliament for Arundel (1695–1698, 1701, 1702–1708)

Edmund Dummer (lawyer) (1663–1724), English lawyer who was appointed "Clerk of the Great Wardrobe"

Geoffrey Dummer (1909–2002), British electronics author and consultant

Jeremiah Dummer (silversmith) (1643–1718), American silversmith

Jeremiah Dummer (1681–1739), important colonial figure in New England who helped establish Yale College

Phineas Cook Dummer (1787–1875), sixth mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey, United States

Richard Dummer (1589–1679), early settler in New England

Richard Arnold Dümmer (1887–1922), South African botanist

Shubael Dummer (1636–1692), early settler in New England murdered in Candlemas Massacre at York, Maine in 1692

Thomas Lee Dummer (1712–1765), English Member of Parliament for Southampton (1737–1741) and Newport (Isle of Wight) (1747–1765)

Thomas Dummer (1739–1781), English Member of Parliament for Newport (Isle of Wight) (1765–1768), Yarmouth (1769–1774), Downton (1774), Wendover (1775–1780) and Lymington (1780–1781); son of Thomas Lee Dummer

William Dummer (1677–1761), Acting Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay

William Dummer (cricketer) (1847–1922), Sussex county cricketer

Gorham Dummer Abbott (1807–1874), American clergyman, educator, and author

William Dummer Powell (1755–1834), Canadian judge

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