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- Walter Dawson was one of those who signed a public declaration on the 13th of April, 1689, that they would appear and fight for their country and religion on the fittest ground between Lifford and Claudy Fort. The gentlemen of this name attainted by King James’s Parliament were, according to Archbishop King’s list of them, John Dawson, gentleman, Monaghan; John Dawson, gentleman, Londonderry; Isaac Dawson, gentleman, Monaghan; Lancelot Dawson, gentleman, do.; Richard Dawson, Esq., Louth; Captain Richard Dawson, Monaghan; Walter Dawson, senr., Esq., Londonderry; Walter Dawson, junr., gentleman, do.; Captain Walter Dawson, Monaghan; William Dawson, Esq., do. I am unable to ascertain which of these gentleman was the defender of Londonderry, recorded in the stanza. Joshua Dawson, Esq., the proprietor of the Castledawson estate, and ancestor of George Robert Dawson, the present worthy representative of this Protestant county in Parliament, was at that time a very young man. His eldest daughter was married to Major-General Gustavus Hamilton, Baron Hamilton, of Stockallan, in the year 1722.
source: Graham, John. A History of the Siege of Londonderry and Defence of Enniskillen, in 1688 and 1689, with Historical Poetry and Biographical Notes, &c. Toronto, Canada: Maclear and Company Publishers, 1873.
- WALTER DAWSON, Esq., married Frances, daughter of Richard Dawson, Esq., an officer in Cromwell's army, with whom he obtained the estate of Dawson's Grove, in the County of Monaghan. He was succeeded at his decease by his only surviving son,
RICHARD DAWSON, Esq., of Dawson's Grove, an eminent Banker and Alderman of the City of Dublin, and M.P. for the County of Monaghan. This gentleman married, in 1723, Elizabeth, daughter of the Most Rev. John Vesey, D.D., Archbishop of Tuam, by whom he left, dying in 1766,
THOMAS DAWSON, Esq., who was elevated to the peerage of Ireland May 28th., 1770, as BARON DARTREY, and advanced to the dignity of VISCOUNT CREMORNE, June 9th., 1785. He married, first, the Lady Anne Fermor, daughter of Thomas, Earl of Pomfret, by whom, who died in 1769, he had a son and daughter, both of whom died in youth. His lordship married, secondly, May 8th., 1770, Philadelphia Hannah, only daughter of Thomas Freame, Esq., of Philadelphia, by whom he had another only son and daughter, who also died young. He was further created, March 7th., 1797, BARON CREMORNE, with remainder to his nephew, Richard Dawson, Esq., and his heirs male. At his death, March 1st., 1813, the Viscountcy of Cremorne expired, but the Barony of the same devolved on his great-nephew,
RICHARD THOMAS DAWSON, second Baron Cremorne, born 1788, who married, March 10th., 1815, Anne Elizabeth Emily, third daughter of John Whaley, Esq., of Whaley Abbey, in the county of Wicklow, and left at his decease, in 1827,
RICHARD DAWSON, third Baron Cremorne, of Dartrey, K.P., formerly a Lord in Waiting on the Queen, Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the County of Monaghan, born September 7th., 1817, created BARON DARTREY, September 20th., 1847, and EARL OF DARTREY, July 12th., 1866. He married, July 12th., 1841, Augusta, daughter of Edward Stanley, Esq., and Lady Mary Stanley, daughter of the Earl of Lauderdale, and had with other children,
VESEY DAWSON, LORD CREMORNE, Lieutenant-Colonel in the Coldstream Guards and M.P. for the County of Monaghan, born April 22nd., 1842.
source: Morris, Francis Orpen. A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland: with Descriptive and Historical Letterpress, Volume 3. London, UK: William Mackenzie, 1880.
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