Thomas Vesey Dawson (3 September 1819 – 5 November 1854) was an

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Whig politician and army officer. He was the son of

Richard Thomas Dawson, 2nd Baron Cremorne Richard Thomas Dawson, 2nd Baron Cremorne (31 August 1788 – 21 March 1827) was an Irish peer. Biography The only son of Richard Dawson of Dawson Grove, in 1807 he succeeded his father as heir-presumptive to his great-uncle Thomas Dawson, 1st ...

and Anne Elizabeth Emily née Whaley. In 1851, he married Augusta Frederic Annie FitzPatrick, daughter of

John FitzPatrick, 1st Baron Castletown John Wilson FitzPatrick, 1st Baron Castletown PC (23 September 1811 – 22 January 1883), known as John Wilson until 1842, was an Irish Liberal politician. Castletown was the illegitimate son of John FitzPatrick, 2nd Earl of Upper Ossory, ...

and Augusta Mary née Douglas. They had at least two children: Vesey John Dawson (1853–1930), and

Douglas Dawson Brigadier-General Sir Douglas Frederick Rawdon Dawson (25 April 1854 – 20 January 1933) was a British Army general officer and courtier. Background and education Dawson was the second son of the Hon. Thomas Vesey Dawson, an officer of the ...

(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

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, a role that led to his death at the

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in 1854. He was a member of the

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and

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* UK MPs 1841–1847 Whig (British political party) MPs for Irish constituencies 1819 births 1854 deaths Coldstream Guards officers

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