Robert Kearsley Dawson | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1798 Dover, England |
| Died | 28 March 1861(1861-03-28) (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) |
Colonel Robert Kearsley Dawson CB (1798 – 1861) was an English surveyor and cartographer of the Corps of Royal Engineers.[1]
Robert 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]
Dawson 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]
He died at Lee Grove, Blackheath, London, on 28 March 1861.[1][2]
