Francis Dunnell
Sir Francis Dunnell | |
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Photographic portrait, c. 1922 | |
| Chief Legal Adviser and Solicitor to the London and North Eastern Railway Company | |
| In office 1922–1928 | |
| Secretary to the Ministry of Transport | |
| In office September 1919 – September 1921 | |
| Secretary, Demobilisation Section, War Cabinet | |
| In office 1918–1919 | |
| Additional Assistant Secretary to the Admiralty | |
| In office 1917–1918 | |
| Solicitor to the North Eastern Railway Company | |
| In office 1905–1917 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Robert Francis Dunnell 26 July 1868 Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England |
| Died | 16 July 1960 (aged 91) |
Sir Robert Francis Dunnell, 1st Baronet, KCB, JP (26 July 1868 – 16 July 1960) was an English solicitor, civil servant and railway executive.
In the decade before World War I, Dunnell was in charge of the legal department and company secretary of the North Eastern Railway Company (NER). From 1917, his services were lent to the government, serving in the Admiralty and a Naval Mission to the United States. In the post-war years Dunnell was secretary of the demobilisation section of the War Cabinet, after which he was appointed for two years to the newly-formed Ministry of Transport during its post-war establishment period. In September 1921, Dunnell returned to the North Eastern Railway Company, which was afterwards subsumed into the London and North Eastern Railway Company (LNER) (to which he was appointed chief legal adviser). He resigned from the LNER in 1928 and two years later was appointed as a Railway and Canal Commissioner. Dunnell went to live in Nairobi in 1947, where he died in 1960.