| Robert Kearsley Dawson | |
| Honorific Suffix: | CB |
| Birth Date: | 1798 |
| Birth Place: | Dover, England |
| Death Place: | Lee Grove, Blackheath, London[1] |
| Placeofburial Label: | Buried |
| Branch: | Board of Ordnance |
| Branch Label: | Branch |
| Serviceyears: | 1816–1853 |
| Serviceyears Label: | Years of service |
| Rank: | Colonel |
| Rank Label: | Rank |
| Servicenumber: | 548 |
| Unit: | Corps of Royal Engineers |
| Awards: | Companion of the Order of the Bath |
| Relations: | Robert Dawson (father) |
Colonel Robert Kearsley Dawson (1798 – 1861) was an English surveyor and cartographer of the Corps of Royal Engineers.[1]
Robert K. Dawson was born in 1798 in Dover.[2] His father was Robert Dawson, a surveyor.[2] He studied at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.[2]
Dawson was commissioned in the Corps of Royal Engineers as 2nd Lieutenant on 1 March 1816, and between 1819 and 1829 took part in the triangulation and mapping of Ireland and Scotland under Thomas Colby.[3]
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.
He died at Lee Grove, Blackheath, London, on 28 March 1861.[1] [2]