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American cartographer
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Place of birth
Dover, Dover, Kent, Kent
Age
63 years
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Biography
Robert Kearsley Dawson (1798–1861) was an English surveyor and cartographer.
Biography
Early life
Robert K. Dawson was born in 1798 in Dover. His father was Robert Dawson, a surveyor. He studied at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.
Career
In 1816, he was commissioned into the Royal Engineers, and between 1819 and 1829 took part in the triangulation and mapping of Ireland and Scotland under Thomas Colby.
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.
Death
He died on 28 March 1861.
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