Richard Dawson (Irish politician, died 1766)

Richard Dawson of Dawson Grove, County Monaghan (c. 1693 – 29 December 1766) was an Irish Member of Parliament.

Biography Dawson was a banker at Dublin and an alderman of Dublin Corporation.George Edward Cokayne, ed. Vicary Gibbs and H. Arthur Doubleday (1913), The Complete Peerage, vol. III, p. 527. He sat in the Irish House of Commons for St Canice from 1727 to 1760 and for Monaghan from 1761 until his death.Edith Mary Johnston-Liik (2006), MPs in Dublin: Companion to History of the Irish Parliament, 1692-1800, p. 83. By his wife Elizabeth, daughter of John Vesey, Archbishop of Tuam, he was the father of Thomas Dawson, 1st Viscount Cremorne.

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