Robert Dunn
1850 — 2 August 1926
Robert Dunn (8‑67‑5/6)
Robert Dunn was born in Melbourne in 1850, served his time in the printing trade in that city and subsequently went to New Zealand for a number of years. He returned to Australia and resumed newspaper work in Melbourne prior to coming to Queensland. He worked for some time on the Gympie Times and, in 1884, became associated with the Brisbane Courier where he remained until the time of his death. He started with the Courier as a compositor but, for the last 20 years of his life he was chief of the proof-reading staff. Robert died on 2 August 1926 at his residence in Upper Clifton Terrace, Red Hill following a sudden seizure.