Vesey Dawson, 2nd Earl of Dartrey (22 April 1842 – 14 June 1920), styled Viscount Cremorne between 1866 and 1897, was an
Irish
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politician.
Family and early life
Dawson was the eldest child of
Richard Dawson, 1st Earl of Dartrey
Richard Dawson, 1st Earl of Dartrey KP (7 September 1817 – 12 May 1897), styled the Hon. Richard Dawson until 1827 and the Lord Cremorne from 1827 to 1866, was an Anglo-Irish Liberal, and later Liberal Unionist, politician.
Life
Dartrey wa ...
(then Lord Cremorne), and his wife, Augusta Stanley, daughter of Edward Stanley and Lady Mary Maitland. He became known by the
courtesy title
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In some co ...
Viscount Cremorne in July 1866 upon his father's elevation to an
earldom
Earl () is a rank of the nobility in the United Kingdom. The title originates in the Old English word ''eorl'', meaning "a man of noble birth or rank". The word is cognate with the Scandinavian form ''jarl'', and meant " chieftain", particula ...
. Educated at
Eton College
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, he later became a
captain
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and, later still, a
lieutenant-colonel
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in the
Coldstream Guards
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, retiring from the
British Army
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in 1876.
In 1882, the then Lord Cremorne married Julia Georgiana Sarah Wombwell, daughter of
Sir George Orby Wombwell and Lady Julia Sarah Alice Child-Villiers. Together, they had three children:
* Lady Edith Anne Dawson (1883–1974)
* Lady Mara Augusta Dawson (1887–1961)
* Richard George Dawson (1890–1894)
Political career
He was elected in the
1865 general election as one of the two
Members of Parliament
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(MPs) for
Monaghan
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The population of the town as of the 2016 census was 7 ...
, but stood down at the
next general election, in 1868.
Lord Cremorne, as he then was, served as
High Sheriff of Monaghan
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in 1878.
Earl and Countess Dartrey attended the 1903
Delhi Durbar
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to mark the accession of King
Edward VII
Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910.
The second child and eldest son of Queen Victoria an ...
as Emperor of India.
Peerage
Viscount Cremorne succeeded as 2nd
Earl of Dartrey
Earl of Dartrey, of Dartrey in the County of Monaghan, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in July 1866 for The 3rd Baron Cremorne.
Thomas Dawson, Burgess of Armagh, came from Yorkshire to Ireland during the reig ...
upon his father's death in May 1897. Upon his own death in 1920, he was succeeded by his brother, Anthony Lucius Dawson, who became 3rd Earl of Dartrey.
As Lord Dartrey, he owned around 25,000 acres of land and was a member of the Travellers' Club on
Kildare Street
Kildare Street () is a street in Dublin, Ireland.
Location
Kildare Street is close to the principal shopping area of Grafton Street and Dawson Street, to which it is joined by Molesworth Street. Trinity College lies at the north end of the ...
in
Dublin
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.
Death
Lord Dartrey died at his home,
Dartrey Castle in
County Monaghan
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, after a long illness in 1920.
References
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1842 births
1920 deaths
People educated at Eton College
Irish Liberal Party MPs
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Monaghan constituencies (1801–1922)
UK MPs 1865–1868
UK MPs who inherited peerages
High Sheriffs of Monaghan
19th-century Irish landowners
Earls in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
20th-century Irish landowners
Vesey Vesey is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Agmondisham Vesey (1677-1739) Irish landowner and politician
* Agmondesham Vesey (1708-85) Irish politician and amateur architect
* Denmark Vesey (c. 1767–1822), American reb ...
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