Colonel Robert Peel Dawson (1818 – 2 September 1877) was an Irish

Ireland

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 Member

Member of Parliament

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 of the House of Commons at Westminster. He was one of the Dawson family of Castledawson

Castledawson

Castledawson is a village in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It is mostly within the townland of Shanemullagh , about four miles from the north-western shore of Lough Neagh, and close to the market town of Magherafelt...

 and lived at Moyola Park

Moyola Park

Moyola Park Golf Club is an 18-hole championship golf course set in 130 acres of mature wooded parkland in the Shanemullagh Estate at Castledawson, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It was founded in 1977 by James Chichester-Clark and his wife on family land at Moyola Park...

, County Londonderry

County Londonderry

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. He served as MP for County Londonderry from 1859 to 1874.

He was the son of The Rt. Hon. George Robert Dawson

George Robert Dawson

George Robert Dawson PC , was an Anglo-Irish Tory politician.-Background and education:Dawson was born at Castledawson, County Londonderry, Ireland, the son of Arthur Dawson, who represented Banagher, Midleton and Newtownards in the Irish Parliament, and Catherine Tyrone...

 and Mary Peel, daughter of Sir Robert Peel, 1st Baronet

Sir Robert Peel, 1st Baronet

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 and sister of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

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 Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet.

His daughter, Mary, married Lord Adolphus John Spencer Churchill Chichester, younger son of Lord Donegall

Edward Chichester, 4th Marquess of Donegall

Edward Chichester, 4th Marquess of Donegall was born in Great Cumberland Place, London, and was educated at Eton and Trinity College Dublin, graduating BA in 1822. He served as Church of Ireland Dean of Raphoe from 1831 to 1871, and succeeded his elder brother as fourth Marquess of Donegall at the...

; thus his grandson was the MP Robert Chichester

Robert Chichester

Lt.-Col. Robert Peel Dawson Spencer Chichester DL, JP was an Irish soldier and politician. He was the son of Lord Adolphus John Spencer Churchill Chichester and Mary Dawson of Castledawson Lt.-Col. Robert Peel Dawson Spencer Chichester DL, JP (13 August 1873 – 10 December 1921) was an Irish...

 and his great-great-grandson was Lord Moyola, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland

Prime Minister of Northern Ireland

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