Richard Dawson (1762–1807)

Richard Dawson (16 April 1762 – 3 September 1807) was an Irish Member of Parliament.

Biography[edit]

He was the third son of Richard Dawson of Ardee by his wife Anne, daughter of Sir Edward O'Brien, 2nd Baronet, and after his father's death in 1782 he became heir-presumptive to his uncle Thomas Dawson, 1st Baron Dartrey. On 22 May 1784 he married Catherine, daughter of Colonel Arthur Graham of Hockley, county Armagh; they had one son and four daughters.^[1] Dawson was elected to the Irish House of Commons for County Monaghan in April 1797^[2] through the influence of his uncle (now Viscount Cremorne),^[1] and was named as heir in the special remainder of the barony of Cremorne granted to his uncle in November of that year.^[3] He continued to represent Monaghan in the Irish Parliament until the Act of Union,^[2] and then sat for the same county in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom until his death^[1] in a Dublin Hotel.^[4] His son Richard Thomas Dawson succeeded as second Baron Cremorne in 1813.^[3]

^ ^a ^b ^c Arthur Aspinall, DAWSON, Richard (1762-1807), of Dawson Grove, co. Monaghan. at The History of Parliament Online. Accessed 22 February 2014.
^ ^a ^b Edith Mary Johnston-Liik (2006), MPs in Dublin: Companion to History of the Irish Parliament, 1692-1800, p. 83.
^ ^a ^b George Edward Cokayne, ed. Vicary Gibbs and H. Arthur Doubleday (1913), The Complete Peerage, vol. III, p. 527.
^ Balwin et al 1827. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year 1807. page 591.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Parliament of Ireland	Member of Parliament for Monaghan 1801 – 1807 With: Warner Westenra 1801 Charles Powell Leslie II from 1801	Succeeded by Charles Powell Leslie II Thomas Charles Stewart Corry