WILLIAM DAWSON Settled in Ireland. Collector of Revenue for Counties Down and Antrim, and the port of Carrickfergus, temp. Chas, I1. Sheriff of Carrickfergus, 1677 and 1693
ELIZABETH, dau. of Alexander Jardine, of the family of Apple- girth, in Scotland.
JOHN PRESTON of Ardsallagh, Co. Meath, and Dublin, M.P. for Navan, 1661-1686. Had grant of Arms, 17 Charles II. d. July 13, 1686
MARY, dau. of John Morris, of Bolton, Lancs. 1st wife
SAMUEL PRESTON of Emo, Queen’s Co. 2nd son. b. about 1652. d. 1692
MARY, dau. of
Theophilus Sandford, of Moyglare, Co, Meath, by Anne, eld. dau, ofAlderman Richard Tighe
MABELLAm. about 1685 William Stannus (or Stanehouse), of Carling- ford, He d. 1717, leaving issue
EPHRIAM DAWSON, of Dawson’s Court, Queen’s Co. Candidate in Election for Lisburn, 1703. Was returned for Carlingford, 1704-5, but unseated on petition. Purchased Portarlington Estate, 1709. M.P. for Portarlington, 1713; and for Queen’s County, 1715-1746. d. Aug. 27, 1746. Will proved, 1746
ANNE PRESTON elder dau.
MARY
SAMUEL d. unm.
WILLIAM HENRY DAWSON, of Dawson’s Court. Born at Portarlington, 1712 Educated under Mr. Towers of Portarlington. Entered Trin. Col. Dublin, July 9, 1732. M.P. for Portarlington, 1733-1761, and again 1769-70. M.P. for Queen’s County, 1761-1768. A Governor of that Co. Trustee of Linen Board. Created Baron Dawson 1770, and Viscount Carlow 1776. mar. 1737. d. Aug 22, 1779 Bur. At New Church, in parish of Coolbanagher, Queen’s Co.
MARY, elder dau. of Joseph Damer, M.P., of Came, Dor- set, and sister of Joseph, 1st, Earl of Dorchester. She was born Sept. 1, 1715, and d. June 2, 1769 Bur. At St. George’s Chapel, Dublin
JOHN DAWSON
Born, Aug. 23. 1744
M.O. for Portarlington
and Queen’s Co.
Created Earl of
Portarlington, 1785.
Privy Councillor for
Ireland. M.R.I.A.
d. Nov. 25. 1798.
m. Lady Caroline
Stuart, dau of John,
3rd Earl of Bute.
Left issue.
JOSEPH
Born in Queen’s
Co., Oct. 6, 1751
Educ. At Eton
Col. Entered
Trin. Col. Dublin.
June 12, 1769.
M.P. for
Portarlington,
1773-1783.
WILLIAM (REV.) Born in Dublin, Nov. 11, 1753. Entered Trin. Col. Dub., July 6. 1771. Grad. B.A. 1774. M.A. 1775. Rector of Coolbanagher. A Governor of Hibernian
Marine Society.
SAMUEL
b. Feb. 21, 1755. Entered Trin. Col. Dublin, July 6, 1772.
d. April, 1774.
EPHRAIM
b. April 5, 1757. d. June 27, 1775
MARY
b. Aug. 12, 1738. Bur. At Ardess,
Dec. 17, 1825.
m. July 15, 1762 Col. Mervyn Archdall, M.P.
MARTHA
b. Sept. 25, 1745. d. June 24, 1766.
ANNE
b. May 11, 1746. m. Major Frederick Metzner.
NOTE: Emo Park, Formerly Dawson’s Court, is situated in the parish of Coobanagher. The hunting-lodge, mentioned above, was called
The Grove, and was rented by the Archdalls for many years. On Taylor and Skinner’s road-map (1778), it is called Ireland’s Grove, being then in the occupation
of . . . . Montgomery, Esq. Near Portarlington is Spire Hill, so called from the erection of an obelisk on it by Viscount Carlow, for the purpose of
giving employment to the poor in a season of scarcity (see Lewis’s Topog. Dict).
and 