Vesey Dawson, 2nd Earl of Dartrey (22 April 1842 – 14 June 1920), styled Viscount Cremorne between 1866 and 1897, was an Irish Liberal politician.

Family and early life

Dawson was the eldest child of

Richard Dawson, 1st Earl of Dartrey Richard Dawson, 1st Earl of Dartrey Order of St. Patrick, 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 Party (UK), Liberal, and later Libera ...

(then Lord Cremorne), and his wife, Augusta Stanley, daughter of Edward Stanley and Lady Mary Maitland. He became known by the

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Viscount Cremorne in July 1866 upon his father's elevation to an

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. Educated at

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, he later became a

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and, later still, a lieutenant-colonel in the

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, retiring from the

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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 (MPs) for

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, but stood down at the next general election, in 1868. Lord Cremorne, as he then was, served as

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in 1878. Earl and Countess Dartrey attended the 1903

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to mark the accession of King

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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 reign ...

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

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Death

Lord Dartrey died at his home, Dartrey Castle in

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, after a long illness in 1920.

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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 (died 1739), Agmondisham Vesey (1677–1739) Irish landowner and politician *Agmondisham Vesey (1708–1785), Agmondesham Vesey (1708–85) Irish politician an ...

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