Robert K. Dawson (surveyor)

Colonel Robert Kearsley Dawson CB (1798 – 1861) was an English surveyor and cartographer of the Corps of Royal Engineers.[1]

For the U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works), see Robert K. Dawson (public official).

Robert Kearsley Dawson

CB
Born1798
Dover, England
Died28 March 1861(1861-03-28) (aged 62–63)
Lee Grove, Blackheath, London[1]
Allegiance United Kingdom
BranchBoard of Ordnance
Years of service1816–1853[1]
RankColonel
Service number548[1]
UnitCorps of Royal Engineers
AwardsCompanion of the Order of the Bath[1]
RelationsRobert Dawson (father)

Early life

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]

Career

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]


Death

He died at Lee Grove, Blackheath, London, on 28 March 1861.[1][2]

See also
  • 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
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
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