Peter Dunphy
{{short description|British business person and film producer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Use British English|date=October 2024}}
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| name = Peter Dunphy
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1966|06|01}}
| birth_place = Consett, Co. Durham, UK
| education = St Bede's Catholic School, Lanchester
| occupation = Business investment advisor;
Film producer;
Chief Commoner of the City of London Corporation
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Peter Gerard Dunphy (born 1 June 1966), is a British staffing business CEO, who serves as Chief Commoner of the City of London Corporation for 2024/25.{{cite web| url=https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/about-us/about-the-city-of-london-corporation/key-councillors | title=Key Councillors | website=cityoflondon.gov.uk | publisher=City of London Corporation | location=UK | date=16 July 2024 | accessdate=31 October 2024 }}
Early life and education
Born in 1966 at Consett,{{cite web| url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/07710894/officers | title=Peter Dunphy Consulting Ltd | publisher=Companies House | location=UK | accessdate=25 September 2015 }} Dunphy was brought up in Lanchester, County Durham, and educated at St Bede's School and the University of Liverpool.
Career
Dunphy is a business investment adviser and was previously an investment director of James Caan's Hamilton Bradshaw Private Equity, and the founder and CEO of City of London based recruitment company, Dryden Human Capital (formerly Darwin Rhodes Group), at the time the largest insurance staffing firm globally with offices in 11 countries. He successfully sold the business in 2012 to private equity funds.{{Cite web|url=https://www.recruiter.co.uk/news/2012/09/contractsdeals-dunphy-sells-stake-dryden-human-capital-group | title= Contracts/Deals: Dunphy sells stake in Dryden Human Capital Group | Recruiter | website=recruiter.co.uk | date=September 2012 }}
Also a film producer (as Peter Gerard Dunphy), he has acted as Lead Producer or Executive Producer for over a dozen films including Mad to Be Normal starring David Tennant, Elisabeth Moss, Gabriel Byrne and Michael Gambon; Funny Cow starring Maxine Peake, Paddy Considine and Stephen Graham; Letters to Sofija, Two Graves with Cathy Tyson, Dave Johns and David Hayman; the feature length autobiographical The Quiet One about Bill Wyman of The Rolling Stones, Surviving Christmas with the Relatives, Chris Gollon: Life in Paint featuring the late British painter Chris Gollon and the feature-length documentary Bicycle.{{Cite web| url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5366537/ | title=Peter Gerard Dunphy | website=IMDb}}
Politics
Dunphy unsuccessfully contested Hornsey and Wood Green as the Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate{{cite web| url=https://democracy.cityoflondon.gov.uk/mgDeclarationSubmission.aspx?UID=200&HID=2020&FID=0&HPID=502143929 | work=Register of Interests | title=Chief Commoner Peter Gerard Dunphy, Deputy | publisher=City of London Corporation | location=UK | date=9 December 2014 | accessdate=31 October 2024 }} at the 1992 general election and at the 1994 Dagenham by-election, and Walthamstow at the 2001 general election. Between 2012 and 2018 he served as the Lib Dem's Registered Treasurer and Finance Committee Chair responsible for overseeing budgets, party spending and PPERA and Electoral Commission compliance. Peter Dunphy Consulting has donated £152,637 (£138,658 personally) to the LibDems over several years.{{cite magazine| title=Peer Pressure? | magazine=Private Eye | number=1396 | date=10–23 July 2015 | page=12 }}
An Independent Common Councilman for the Ward of Cornhill, first elected in 2009 and returned in 2013, 2017, 2022 and 2025,{{cite web| url=https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/assets/About-us/notice-of-persons-elected-2017.pdf | title=Election of Common Councilmen – Aldergate Ward – Notice of Persons Elected | publisher=City of London Corporation | location=UK | date=22 March 2017 | archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20210208012723/https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/assets/About-us/notice-of-persons-elected-2017.pdf | accessdate=8 February 2021 | archive-date=8 February 2021 }} Dunphy was elected Chairman of the City Licensing Committee in 2016,{{cite web| url=https://democracy.cityoflondon.gov.uk/mgUserInfo.aspx?UID=200 | title=Chief Commoner Peter Gerard Dunphy, Deputy | website=democracy.cityoflondon.gov.uk | publisher=City of London Corporation | location=UK | date=23 March 2022 | accessdate=31 October 2024 }} Chief Commoner of the City of London Corporation (for 2024/25) and Chairman of the Port Health and Environmental Services Committee in 2025.
Dunphy was, along with former MP Heidi Allen, founding director of Unite to Remain, the electoral pact between parties which supported remaining in the European Union at the 2019 UK general election.{{Cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/06/lib-dems-plaid-cymru-and-greens-launch-pro-remain-electoral-pact|title = Lib Dems, Plaid Cymru and Greens to launch pro-remain pact| newspaper=TheGuardian.com | date=6 November 2019}}
Charitable work
A Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Drapers,{{cite web| url=https://thedrapers.co.uk/master-wardens/ | title=Master and Wardens | website=thedrapers.co.uk | location=UK | publisher=Worshipful Company of Drapers }} Dunphy is a long-serving Trustee of the Honourable The Irish Society, serving as Deputy Governor (Managing Director) between 2019 and 2021.{{Cite web|url=http://democracy.cityoflondon.gov.uk/mgDeclarationSubmission.aspx?UID=200&HID=3382&FID=0&HPID=0 | title=Chief Commoner Peter Gerard Dunphy, Deputy | work=Register of interests | publisher=City of London Corporation | location=UK | date=9 October 2020 | accessdate=31 October 2024 }}
See also
References
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External links
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Category:Councilmen of the City of London
Category:Liberal Democrats (UK) people