Vesey John Dawson

Major-General Vesey John Dawson, (4 April 1853 – 17 January 1930) was a British Army officer.

Military career Dawson was the eldest son of the Hon. Thomas Vesey Dawson, an officer of the Coldstream Guards who was killed at the Battle of Inkerman; his father was the son of Richard Thomas Dawson, 2nd Baron Cremorne, and his mother the daughter of John FitzPatrick, 1st Baron Castletown. His younger brother, Douglas Dawson, was also an army officer. Vesey Dawson attended Eton College, where his housemaster was Oscar Browning. From 1906 to 1908 he commanded the 15th Infantry Brigade at Belfast, and from March 1908 to 1912 he commanded the 2nd London Division of the Territorial Force, in which post he was succeeded by Charles Monro. He retired from the army in 1914.