Background
DAWSON, Commander William was born in 1831 in Dungannon, Ireland. Son of William Dawson, Doctor of Medicine, of Bovain.
DAWSON, Commander William was born in 1831 in Dungannon, Ireland. Son of William Dawson, Doctor of Medicine, of Bovain.
Studied at Royal School, Dungannon, I re land.
Joined His (or Her) Majesty Sloop Mutine, 1844. Entered Royal Naval College for higher Mathematical Course, 1851-1852. Gunnery Lieutenant, of Colossus in Baltic Campaign, 1854-1856.
Gunnery Lieutenant Cambridge, Gunnery ship, 1856-1862.
Commander Shannon, Mediterranean, 1862-1863. Secretary War Office Committee on Torpedoes, 1863-1869.
Placed on retired list, 1870. Secretary The Missions to Seamen, 1874-1904.
Constart writer in magazines and newspapers on questions affecting seamen, Royal Navy and merchant service, generally anonymous— chiefly their moral and religious deprivations and difficulties, 1864-1874.
Honourable Secretary Naval Prayer Union, 1858-1900. Helped to found Royal Navy Scripture Readers’ Society, 1860, ami worked it till 1871. Committee of London Diocesan Lay Helpers’ Association, 1869-1901.
Board of London Diocesan Lay Readers till 1901.
Royal Navy; Editorial Secretary The Missions to Seamen since 1904.
Spouse 1860, Emily Trevenen (daughter 1902),daughter of Prebendary Thomas Grylls, Master of Arts, Rector of Cardynham, Cornwall.