Dummer (surname)

Dummer is a surname of Anglo-Saxon origin. It means those from Dummer, Hampshire.^[1]

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

See also

• Dummer family tree showing the relationships between many of the above

References