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Tom Dawson (golfer)
Thomas Dawson may refer to: * Thomas Dawson (soldier) (1784–1846), American soldier and politician * Thomas Rayner Dawson (1889–1951), chess problemist * David Thomas Dawson (1957–2006), American murderer * Thomas Cleland Dawson (1865–1912), American diplomat * Thomas Dawson (college president) (died 1760), president of the College of William and Mary in the 1750s * Thomas Dawson, 1st Viscount Cremorne (1725–1813), Irish landowner and politician from County Monaghan * Thomas Dawson (physician) (1725?–1782), English physician, authored medical texts * Thomas Vesey Dawson (1819–1854), Member of Parliament for County Louth, 1841–1847 * Thomas Vesey Dawson (priest) (1768–1811), Anglican priest in Ireland * Tommy Dawson (footballer, born 1901) (1901–1977), English football player * Tommy Dawson (footballer, born 1915) (1915–1972), English football player * Thomas Dawson, Lord Dawson (1948–2007), Scottish lawyer * Thomas Hilton Dawson (born 1953), British politici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Dawson (soldier)
General Thomas Dawson (January 25, 1784 – February 26, 1846) represented Greene County, Georgia in the state legislature. He served as Captain in the War of 1812 and as Major under General Adams in the Creek War. He was the first white child born in Greene County after it was formed. His parents were George Dawson and Ruth Skidmore. His eight children included William Curran Dawson William Curran Dawson (September 17, 1818 - June 11, 1893) represented Russell County, Alabama in the state legislature in 1855. He fought in the Creek War of 1836 and was a merchant and planter at Glenville, Alabama. He was born in Greene Count .... ReferencesA collection of family records, with biographical sketches and other memoranda of various families and individuals bearing the name Dawson, or allied to families of that name. Comp. by Charles C. Dawson, pp 371-372. Albany, N.Y.: J. Munsell, 1874. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Rayner Dawson
Thomas Rayner Dawson (28 November 1889 – 16 December 1951) was an English chess problemist and is acknowledged as "the father of Fairy Chess". He invented many fairy pieces and new conditions. He introduced the popular fairy pieces grasshopper, nightrider, and many other fairy chess ideas. Career Dawson published his first problem, a two-mover, in 1907. His chess problem compositions include 5,320 fairies, 885 , 97 selfmates, and 138 endings. 120 of his problems have been awarded prizes and 211 honourably mentioned or otherwise commended. He cooperated in chess composition with Charles Masson Fox. Dawson was founder-editor (1922–1931) of ''The Problemist'', the journal of the British Chess Problem Society. He subsequently produced ''The Fairy Chess Review'' (1930–1951), which began as ''The Problemist Fairy Chess Supplement''. At the same time he edited the problem pages of '' The British Chess Magazine'' (1931–1951). Motivation and personality From ''The Oxford Comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Thomas Dawson
David Thomas Dawson (October 20, 1957 – August 11, 2006) was an American convicted murderer who was executed at Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge, Montana. Dawson was executed for the April 1986 murders of the Rodstein family in Billings, Montana. He remains the last person executed in Montana. Early life Dawson was born on October 20, 1957, in San Diego, California. He was the second of three children and had two sisters. His father reportedly owned several businesses that failed, and the family moved around states when he was younger; moving to California, Colorado, Florida, and Montana. As a child, Dawson was described as sickly and clumsy, and had a hard time making friends. He got married when he was a young adult and reportedly may have fathered a daughter. The couple divorced, however. In the early 1980s, Dawson moved to Montana to work in construction, and found work in Colstrip. He rented an apartment in Billings where he stayed at on weekends. Dawson was reportedly de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Cleland Dawson
Thomas Cleland Dawson (July 30, 1865 – May 1, 1912) was a career United States diplomat. Biography Born in Hudson, Wisconsin, Dawson received his bachelor's degree from Hanover College and his law degree from University of Cincinnati College of Law. He also studied at Harvard University. Dawson practiced law in Des Moines, Iowa and Council Bluffs, Iowa and was an assistant Iowa Attorney General. He was also a newspaper publisher. Dawson entered the diplomatic service in 1891, when he was appointed Secretary of Legation in Brazil. He was U.S. minister and consul general to the Dominican Republic (1904‑1907), during which term he negotiated the American-Dominican Fiscal Convention of 1907; then ambassador to Colombia (1907‑1909), Chile (1909), and Panama Panama ( , ; es, link=no, Panamá ), officially the Republic of Panama ( es, República de Panamá), is a transcontinental country spanning the southern part of North America and the northern part of South ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Dawson (college President)
Thomas Dawson was an Anglican priest and the fourth president of The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia (1755–1760).William & Mary — 18th Century Presidents Retrieved on March 10, 2009. He is also the brother of William Dawson, who was the second president of William & Mary (1743–1752).President Thomas Dawson Retrieved on March 10, 2009. He was educated at William & Mary and also held several religious positions, including being an Anglican clergyman, rector of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Dawson, 1st Viscount Cremorne
Thomas Dawson, 1st Viscount Cremorne was an Irish landowner and politician from County Monaghan. Biography He was born on 25 February 1725, the first surviving son of Richard Dawson of Dawson Grove, by his wife Elizabeth Vesey, daughter of John Vesey, Archbishop of Tuam. He represented County Monaghan in the Irish House of Commons from 1749 to 1768, and on 28 May 1770 was raised to the Irish House of Lords as Baron Dartrey, of Dawson's Grove in the County of Monaghan, being elevated to Viscount Cremorne on 19 June 1785.George Edward Cokayne, ed. Vicary Gibbs and H. Arthur Doubleday, ''The Complete Peerage'', vol. III (London, 1913p. 527 Lord Cremorne was married on 15 August 1754, at St Martin-in-the-Fields, to Anne Fermor (baptised 25 May 1733), youngest daughter of Thomas Fermor, 1st Earl of Pomfret and his wife, Henrietta Jeffreys, a daughter of The 2nd Baron Jeffreys. Lady Dawson died at Castle Dawson on 1 March 1769 and was buried at Ematris, County Monaghan. Their only s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Dawson (physician)
Thomas Dawson (1725?–1782) was an English physician. Life Born about 1725, he was the son of Eli Dawson, a dissenter, and was educated in Kendal, at the dissenting academy of Caleb Rotheram. Initially minister of a congregation at the Gravel Pit Meeting-house in Hackney parish, he went to Glasgow College in 1749, and graduated M.D. there 8 June 1753. Dawson went into practice in London, occasionally going round the wards of Guy's Hospital. He was elected physician to the Middlesex Hospital 1 February 1759, but only held the post for two years. On 22 December 1762 he was admitted a licentiate of the College of Physicians of London. Two years later (3 October) he was elected physician to the London Hospital, and continued there till 5 September 1770. Dawson used to see patients at Batson's coffee-house in Cornhill. He died 29 April 1782. Works In 1774 Dawson published ''Cases in the Acute Rheumatism and the Gout, with cursory Remarks and the Method of Treatment''. It suggeste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Vesey Dawson
Thomas Vesey Dawson (3 September 1819 – 5 November 1854) was an Irish Whig politician and army officer. He was the son of Richard Thomas Dawson, 2nd Baron Cremorne and Anne Elizabeth Emily née Whaley. In 1851, he married Augusta Frederic Annie FitzPatrick, daughter of John FitzPatrick, 1st Baron Castletown and Augusta Mary née Douglas. They had at least two children: Vesey John Dawson (1853–1930), and Douglas Dawson (1854–1933). Dawson was first elected Whig MP for at the 1841 general election and held the seat until 1847, when he was instead elected MP for . He remained MP for the latter seat until 1852, when he did not seek re-election. He attained the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the Coldstream Guards, a role that led to his death at the Battle of Inkerman in 1854. He was a member of the Guards' Club and Reform Club. References External links * UK MPs 1841–1847 Whig (British political party) MPs for Irish constituencies 1819 births 1854 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Vesey Dawson (priest)
Thomas Vesey Dawson (1768–1811) was an Anglican priest in Ireland during the late 18th and early centuries. Dawson was born in Dublin; and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He was Dean of Killala from 1795 until 1796; Archdeacon of Tuam from April to July 1806; and Dean of Clonmacnoise from July 1806 until his death."Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton, H. p146: Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878 Dawson's elder brother Richard was the father of Richard Thomas Dawson, 2nd Baron Cremorne. Notes Alumni of Trinity College Dublin 18th-century Irish Anglican priests 19th-century Irish Anglican priests Archdeacons of Tuam Deans of Killala Deans of Clonmacnoise Thomas Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (other) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the Ap ... Christian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Dawson (footballer, Born 1901)
Thomas Dawson (15 December 1901 – 30 November 1977) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Clapton Orient, Gateshead and Stoke City. Career Dawson was born in Durham and worked as a miner, playing football for Washington Colliery and Chopwell Institute before joining Stoke City in 1924. He was used as back up to Bob McGrory and due to his consistency Dawson found it very difficult to break into the first team. He was then installed as captain of Stoke's reserve side and spent eight seasons at the Victoria Ground, making just 24 appearances in the first team. He played a season with Clapton Orient and then back in his home of the north east with Gateshead. Career statistics Source: Honours ; Stoke City *Football League Third Division North The Third Division North of the Football League was a tier in the English football league system from 1921 to 1958. It ran in parallel with the Third Division South with clubs elected to the League or relegate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Dawson (footballer, Born 1915)
Thomas Dawson (6 February 1915 – 20 December 1972) was an English professional footballer who played as an inside forward in the Football League. He later moved to Australia and managed Adamstown Rosebud. Career statistics Honours Charlton Athletic * FA Cup The Football Association Challenge Cup, more commonly known as the FA Cup, is an annual knockout football competition in men's domestic English football. First played during the 1871–72 season, it is the oldest national football competi ...: 1946–47 References External links * 1915 births 1972 deaths English men's footballers Footballers from Middlesbrough Men's association football forwards Charlton Athletic F.C. players Whitby Town F.C. players Darlington F.C. players Spennymoor United A.F.C. players Brentford F.C. players Swindon Town F.C. players English Football League players Chippenham Town F.C. players Chippenham Town F.C. managers English expatriate sportspeople in Austr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Dawson, Lord Dawson
Thomas Cordner Dawson, Lord Dawson (14 November 1948 – 8 June 2007) was a Scottish lawyer. He was Solicitor General for Scotland from 1992 until his appointment in 1995 as a Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland, and held this post until his death in 2007. Early life Dawson was educated at the Royal High School of Edinburgh and studied at the School of Law of the University of Edinburgh. He lectured at the University of Dundee from 1971 to 1974, and was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1973, becoming Queen's Counsel in 1986. Legal career Dawson practised as an Advocate Depute from 1983 to 1987, prosecuting criminal cases on behalf of the Lord Advocate, and was counsel to the 1988 Piper Alpha Inquiry. In 1992, he was appointed Solicitor General for Scotland, the deputy of the Lord Advocate, succeeding Alan Rodger, who was appointed to the superior post. In 1995, Dawson was appointed a Senator of the College of Justice, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |