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| | Genealogical Notes on the Dunnings in America |
 | | It seems probable that the Dunning family existed in England from a very early period and that men of the name scattered out over the British Isles and founded families whose relationship to each other cannot, at this late date, be definately determined. |
| | Early in the reign of the later Stuarts, a family of Dunnings lived in Walkhampton, Devonshire, on the western edge of Dartmoor, from which arose the celebrated lawyer and parliamentarian, John Dunning, who became Solicitor-General of England and was created Baron Ashburton, April 8, 1782. |
| | The earliest mention of the name Dunning seems to be by the Bishop of Nelson, in his Life of Walter de Merton, p34, who says that "probably in the year 1269, he purchased the Norman Mansion (the present Pythagoras House, Cambridge), together with the estate of the Dunnings, who had held it from the Conquest. |
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