Robert K. Dawson (surveyor)
Robert Kearsley Dawson | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1798 Dover, England |
| Died | 28 March 1861(aged 62–63) Lee Grove,Blackheath, London[1] |
| Allegiance |  United Kingdom |
| Branch | Board of Ordnance |
| Years of service | 1816–1853[1] |
| Rank | Colonel |
| Service number | 548[1] |
| Unit | Corps of Royal Engineers |
| Awards | Companion of theOrder of the Bath[1] |
| Relations | Robert Dawson(father) |
ColonelRobert Kearsley DawsonCB(1798 – 1861) was an Englishsurveyorandcartographerof theCorps of Royal Engineers.[1]
Early life[edit]
Robert K. Dawson was born in 1798 inDover.[2]His father wasRobert Dawson,a surveyor.[2]He studied at theRoyal Military Academy, Woolwich.[2]
Career[edit]
Dawson was commissioned in theCorps of Royal Engineersas 2nd Lieutenant on 1 March 1816, and between 1819 and 1829 took part in thetriangulationand mapping ofIrelandandScotlandunderThomas Colby.[3]
In 1831, he was recalled to England to survey the boundaries of the proposedParliamentary Boroughsfor theGreat Reform Act,producing a series of one-inch and two-inch maps that are preserved in two volumes in theBritish Library.[3]
Death[edit]
He died at Lee Grove,Blackheath, London,on 28 March 1861.[1][2]
See also[edit]
- Unknown (1862)."Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Obituary. Colonel Robert Kearsley Dawson, C.B., R.E., 1798-1861".Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers.21(1862): 582–584.doi:10.1680/imotp.1862.23428.
- Andrews, John Harwood (1975).A Paper Landscape: The Ordnance Survey in the Nineteenth Century.Clarendon Press.
References[edit]
- ^abcdefConnolly, Thomas William John (1898). Richard Fielding Edwards (ed.).Roll of Officers of the Corps of Royal Engineers from 1660 to 1898.Chatham: The Royal Engineers Institute. p. 23.
- ^abcdBaigent, Elizabeth (2004)."Dawson, Robert Kearsley (1798–1861)".Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.Oxford University Press.doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/7355.Retrieved3 May2009.
- ^abKain, Roger J. P.; Prince, Hugh C. (2006) [1983]."The Tithe Commission in London".The Tithe Surveys of England and Wales.Baker, Alan R. H.; Dennis, Richard; Holdworth, Deryck. Cambridge University Press. pp. 33–35.ISBN0-521-02431-5.Retrieved3 May2009.
