Dummer

Dummer

Dummer or Dümmer may refer to:

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Places

People

  • 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

Other

  • Dummer's War (c. 1721–1725), a series of battles between the British and French over control of northern New England
  • The Governor's Academy, formerly Governor Dummer Academy, a private preparatory school in the village of Byfield, Newbury, Massachusetts, United States

See also

  • Dumber (disambiguation)
  • Dummer family tree showing the relationships between many of the above

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