Richard Thomas Dawson, 2nd Baron Cremorne (31 August 1788 – 21 March 1827) was an Irish peer.

Biography

The only son of

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of Dawson Grove, in 1807 he succeeded his father as heir-presumptive to his great-uncle

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 (died 1766), Richard Dawson of Dawson Grove, by his wife Elizab ...

. He was educated at

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and

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.Arthur Aspinall
DAWSON, Richard Thomas (1788-1827), of Dawson Grove, co. Monaghan.
in

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Online. Accessed 26 February 2014. Dawson was elected unopposed to Parliament for

County Monaghan County Monaghan ( ; ) is a Counties of Ireland, county in Ireland. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Ulster and is part of Border Region, Border strategic planning area of the Northern and Western Region. It is named after the town ...

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and sat until he succeeded as second

Baron Cremorne Baron is a rank of nobility or title of honour, often hereditary, in various European countries, either current or historical. The female equivalent is baroness. Typically, the title denotes an aristocrat who ranks higher than a lord or knight, ...

on 1 March the following year. On 10 March 1815 he married Anne Elizabeth Emily, daughter of John Whaley of Whaley Abbey; they had two sons. One of his sisters, Louisa married Charles Johnston Coote, an illegitimate son of

Charles Coote, 1st Earl of Bellomont Charles Coote, 1st Earl of Bellomont, KB, PC (Ire), (6 April 1738 – 20 October 1800) was an Anglo-Irish politician who served as one of the Postmasters General of Ireland. Charles was briefly styled as the Baron Coote between February 1766 ...

and inheritor of Bellamont House.

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* 1788 births 1827 deaths People educated at Harrow School Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge UK MPs 1812–1818 UK MPs who inherited peerages Barons in the Peerage of Ireland Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Monaghan constituencies (1801–1922)

Richard Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic language">Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'st ...

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