Richard Dawson (Irish politician, born 1762)
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]
His daughter Louisa married Charles Johnston Coote, illegitimate son of Charles Coote, 1st Earl of Bellomont and inheritor of Bellamont House.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ "Coote (Bellamont) | Landed Estates | University of Galway". landedestates.ie. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
- 1762 births
- 1807 deaths
- People educated at The Royal School, Armagh
- Alumni of Trinity College Dublin
- Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford
- Dawson family
- Members of Lincoln's Inn
- High sheriffs of Monaghan
- Irish MPs 1790–1797
- Irish MPs 1798–1800
- UK MPs 1801–1802
- UK MPs 1802–1806
- UK MPs 1806–1807
- UK MPs 1807–1812
- Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Monaghan constituencies (1801–1922)
- Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Monaghan constituencies