The Right Honourable Dr. John Elliot Orr Dunwoody CBE (June 3rd 1929 —January 27th 2006) was a British Labour politician. The Right Honourable (abbreviated The Rt Hon. ... Commanders Badge of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions, in decreasing order of seniority: Knight or Dame Grand... June 3 is the 154th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (155th in leap years), with 211 days remaining. ... -1... January 27 is the 27th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Labour Party is the principal centre-left political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics). ...

A surgeon, Dunwoody worked in Devon as a senior house physician at Newton Abbot Hospital from 1955 to 1956 and as a GP and medical officer in Totnes District Hospital from 1956 to 1966. The inner harbour, Brixham, south Devon, at low tide Devon is a large county in South West England, bordering on Cornwall to the west, Dorset and Somerset to the east. ... Location within the British Isles Newton Abbot is a town in Devon , England on the River Teign, with a population of 23,580 (2001 census). ... Map sources for Totnes at grid reference SX805605 Arms of Totnes Town Council Totnes (totnus) is an ancient borough in South Devon and is the capital of the South Hams district. ...

He became member of Parliament for Falmouth and Camborne at the 1966 general election. He was a health minister from 1969 until 1970, and lost his seat in 1970. A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ... Creation 1950 MP Julia Goldsworthy Party Liberal Democrat Type House of Commons County Cornwall EP constituency South West England Falmouth and Camborne is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... The UK general election in 1966 was called by Harold Wilson because his government, elected in the 1964 election, had an unworkably small majority. ...

Dunwoody became the first director of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH). He was awarded the CBE in 1986. He died age 76 after an accident at his home in France. No smoking symbol ASH (Action on Smoking and Health) is a campaigning public health charity working to eliminate the harm caused by tobacco. ... Commanders Badge of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions, in decreasing order of seniority: Knight or Dame Grand...

Dunwoody's wife, Gwyneth Dunwoody née Phillips, also became a Labour MP in 1966. They later divorced. Their daughter Tamsin Dunwoody-Kneafsey is a Member of the Welsh Assembly. Gwyneth Patricia Dunwoody (born in Fulham, London on 12 December 1930), is the longest-serving woman Member of the United Kingdom Parliament, having been the Labour Party MP for Exeter between 1966 and 1970, then MP for Crewe from February 1974 to 1983 then following boundary changes, for the Crewe... Tamsin Dunwoody-Kneafsey (b. ... The National Assembly for Wales (or NAW) (Welsh: Cynulliad Cenedlaethol Cymru) was established in 1998, following a 1997 referendum in which a small majority of voters (but not the electorate) voted in favour of the Labour Governments plans for devolution. ...