Richard Dawson

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

Biography 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. Dawson was elected to the Irish House of Commons for County Monaghan in April 1797 through the influence of his uncle (now Viscount Cremorne), He continued to represent Monaghan in the Irish Parliament until the Act of Union, His son Richard Thomas Dawson succeeded as second Baron Cremorne in 1813.