Colonel Robert Kearsley Dawson CB (1798 – 1861) was an English surveyor and cartographer of the Corps of Royal Engineers.[1]
Robert Kearsley Dawson | |
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| 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 the Order of the Bath[1] |
| Relations | Robert Dawson (father) |
Early life
editRobert K. Dawson was born in 1798 in Dover.[2] His father was Robert Dawson, a surveyor.[2] He studied at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.[2]
Career
editDawson was commissioned in the Corps of Royal Engineers as 2nd Lieutenant on 1 March 1816, and between 1819 and 1829 took part in the triangulation and mapping of Ireland and Scotland under Thomas Colby.[3]
In 1831, he was recalled to England to survey the boundaries of the proposed Parliamentary Boroughs for the Great Reform Act, producing a series of one-inch and two-inch maps that are preserved in two volumes in the British Library.[3]
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The proposed Parliamentary Borough of Birmingham, surveyed by Dawson in 1831 for the Great Reform Act -
Bewdley from the Ordnance Survey -
Horsham from the Ordnance Survey -
Oxford from the Ordnance Survey
Death
editHe 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- ^ a b c d e f Connolly, 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.
- ^ a b c d Baigent, Elizabeth (2004). "Dawson, Robert Kearsley (1798–1861)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/7355. Retrieved 3 May 2009.
- ^ a b Kain, 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. ISBN 0-521-02431-5. Retrieved 3 May 2009.