Overview
Brigadier-General Sir Douglas Frederick Rawdon Dawson (25 April 1854 – 20 January 1933) was a British Army general officer and courtier.
Background and education
Dawson was the second son of the Hon. Thomas Vesey Dawson, an officer of the Coldstream Guards who was killed at the Battle of Inkerman. His paternal grandfather was Richard Thomas Dawson, 2nd Baron Cremorne. His elder brother, Vesey, was also a British Army officer.
He attended Eton College, and then joined the Coldstream Guards in 1874, attending the Staff College in 1881.
Military career
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