Earl of Dartrey
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. It was created in 1866 for Richard Dawson, 3rd Baron Cremorne
Richard Dawson, 1st Earl of Dartrey
Richard Dawson, 1st Earl of Dartrey KP , styled the Hon. Richard Dawson until 1827 and the Lord Cremorne from 1827 to 1866, was an Anglo-Irish Liberal, and later Liberal Unionist, politician....
. The Dawson family descended from Richard Dawson, a Dublin banker who also represented County Monaghan in the Irish House of Commons
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. His second son Thomas Dawson sat as Member of the Irish Parliament for County Monaghan from 1749 to 1768. In 1770 he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland
Peerage of Ireland
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as Baron Dartrey, of Dawson's Grove in the County of Monaghan, and in 1785 he was made Viscount Cremorne, also in the Peerage of Ireland. Both titles were created with normal remainder to the heirs male of his body. In 1797 (after his three sons had all predeceased him) he was created Baron Cremorne, of Castle Dawson in the County of Monaghan, in the Peerage of Ireland, with remainder to his nephew Richard Dawson, Member of the British Parliament for County Monaghan from 1801 to 1807. On Lord Cremorne's death in 1813 the barony of Dartrey and the viscountcy became extinct.
However, he was succeeded in the barony of Cremorne according to the special remainder by his great-nephew Richard Thomas Dawson, the second Baron. He was the son of the aforementioned Richard Dawson. Lord Cremorne represented County Monaghan in the British House of Commons
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between 1812 and 1813. He was succeeded by his eldest son, the third Baron. In 1847 he was created Baron Dartrey, of Dartrey in the County of Monaghan, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, which entitled him to an automatic seat in the House of Lords
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. He served as a government whip in the Liberal
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administrations of Lord Palmerston
Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
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and Lord Russell
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. In 1866 he was further honoured when he was made Earl of Dartrey, of Dartrey in the County of Monaghan, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. He was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Earl. He sat as Member of Parliament for County Monaghan from 1865 to 1868. He died without surviving male issue and was succeeded by his youngest brother, the third Earl. He married Mary, 25th Baroness de Ros
Mary Dawson, Countess of Dartrey
Mary Frances Dawson, Countess of Dartrey, 25th Baroness de Ros of Helmsley was a British peeress. She was born in London. Her parents were Dudley FitzGerald-de Ros and Lady Elizabeth Egerton...
. Their eldest daughter Una
Una Ross, 26th Baroness de Ros
Una Mary Ross, 26th Baroness de Ros of Helmsley succeeded her mother to the title in 1943...
succeeded her mother in the barony of de Ros (see the Baron de Ros
Baron de Ros
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for further history of this title). Lord Dartrey had two other daughters but no sons and on his death in 1933 all his titles became extinct.
Several other members of the Dawson family also gained distinction. Lucius Henry Dawson (d. 1795), nephew of the first Viscount and uncle of the second Baron, was a Captain
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in the Royal Navy
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. The Very Reverend Thomas Vesey Dawson, also a nephew of the first Viscount and uncle of the second Baron, was Dean of Clonmacnoise
Clonmacnoise
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. The Hon. Thomas Vesey Dawson (1819–1854), second son of the second Baron, was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Coldstream Guards
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and fought in the Crimean War
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, where he was killed in action at the Battle of Inkerman
Battle of Inkerman
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in 1854. His eldest son Vesey John Dawson
Vesey John Dawson
Major-General Vesey John Dawson , CVO, was a British Army general officer.He 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...
was a Major-General in the Army while his second son Sir Douglas Frederick Rawdon Dawson
Douglas Dawson
Brigadier-General Sir Douglas Frederick Rawdon Dawson , GCVO, KCB, CMG, was a British Army general officer.He was the second son of the Hon. Thomas Vesey Dawson, an officer of the Coldstream Guards who was killed at the Battle of Inkerman. Hispaternal grandfather was Richard Thomas Dawson, 2nd...
was a Brigadier-General in the Army as well as Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's Department
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. The Hon. Edward Stanley Dawson (1843–1919), second son of the first Earl, was a Captain in the Royal Navy.
Viscounts Cremorne (1785); Barons Cremorne (1797)
- Thomas Dawson, 1st Viscount Cremorne, 1st Baron Cremorne (1725–1813)
- Hon. Richard Dawson (d. 1778)
- Hon. Thomas Dawson (c. 1771–1787)
Barons Cremorne (1797)
- Richard Thomas Dawson, 2nd Baron Cremorne (1788–1827)
- Richard Dawson, 3rd Baron CremorneRichard Dawson, 1st Earl of DartreyRichard Dawson, 1st Earl of Dartrey KP , styled the Hon. Richard Dawson until 1827 and the Lord Cremorne from 1827 to 1866, was an Anglo-Irish Liberal, and later Liberal Unionist, politician....
(1817–1897) (created Earl of Dartrey in 1866)
Earls of Dartrey (1866)
- Richard Dawson, 1st Earl of DartreyRichard Dawson, 1st Earl of DartreyRichard Dawson, 1st Earl of Dartrey KP , styled the Hon. Richard Dawson until 1827 and the Lord Cremorne from 1827 to 1866, was an Anglo-Irish Liberal, and later Liberal Unionist, politician....
(1817–1897) - Vesey Dawson, 2nd Earl of Dartrey (1842–1920)
- Hon. Richard George Dawson (1890–1894)
- Anthony Lucius Dawson, 3rd Earl of Dartrey (1855–1933)