Name Jack Dunnett Role Politician | Party Labour Party | |
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Education Downing College, Cambridge | ||
John Jacob Dunnett (born 24 June 1922), known as Jack Dunnett, is a British Labour Party politician.
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Politics
Dunnett was educated at Whitgift Middle School, Croydon, and Downing College, Cambridge, and became a solicitor. He served as a councillor on Middlesex County Council 1958-61 and on Enfield Borough Council 1958-61, serving as an alderman until 1963. He was elected to the Greater London Council in 1964.
Dunnett was elected at the 1964 general election as Member of Parliament for Nottingham Central and held the seat until it was abolished in boundary changes for the 1974 election. He was then returned for the new Nottingham East constituency until he retired from the House of Commons at the 1983 general election, when Nottingham East was won by the Conservatives.
Football
Dunnett was Chairman of Brentford Football Club. In January 1967 he agreed a sale of the club with Jim Gregory of Queens Park Rangers in a move which threatened Brentford’s future. A consortium of businessmen and supporters of Brentford bought out Dunnett’s shares to stave off this takeover.
Dunnett was Chairman of Notts County from 1967. He stood down in 1987 but was reported to have benefited from an arrangement in which the club paid rent to his company, Park Street Securities.
Dunnett was President of the Football League 1981-1986 and 1988-89. He was a member of the Football Association’s Executive Committee at the time of the Hillsborough disaster.