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Sion House
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 Sion House, Navan, County Meath |
Sion House in Navan, County Meath was one of the residences of the Dunville family and it was used by them as a base for their pursuit of hunting. John Dunville Dunville (1866-1929) was brought up partly at Redburn House in County Down and partly at Sion House. In 1892 he married Violet Anne Blanche Lambart (1861-1940) who also lived in County Meath, at Beau Parc. John Dunville was Master of the Meath Hounds from 1911 to 1915, succeeding John Watson of Bective House, who was Master of the Meath from 1891 to 1908, and the Earl of Fingall, who was Master of the Meath until 1911. John Dunville served for many years in the old Meath Militia (5th Battalion Leinster Regiment), gaining the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, which he subsequently kept as his title: Colonel John Dunville.
John Dunville was Chairman of the whisky distillers Dunville & Co., Ltd., a keen hunter and a ballooning enthusiast. In the First World War he served in the Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Air Force, for which he was awarded the C.B.E.
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The Dunvilles of Northern Ireland and Dunville's Whisky
Obituary of John Dunville Dunville, CBE, DL (1866-1929)
Photographs of John Dunville Dunville, CBE, DL (1866-1929)
Photograph of Robert Grimshaw Dunville (1838-1910)
Photographs of Violet Anne Blanche Dunville née Lambart (1861-1940)
