Dictionary of national biography Volume 14 Sir Leslie Stephen

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ...(1776-1860) q. v., was educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and obtained his first commission in the royal engineers in 1818. He was employed under Captain (afterwards General) Colby q. v. on the Scotch and Irish surveys. He superintended the preparation of the plans of cities and boroughs issued by government about the time of the introduction of the first Reform Bill, and which are entered under the name of "R. K. Dawson" in "British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books." He was attached to the Tithe Commutation Commission from its first format ion, and was afterwards appointed an assistantcommissioner and head of the survey department of the Commons Enclosure and Copyhold Commission. For his services in this capacity he was made a C.B., civil division. He died at Blackheath on 1 April 1861. War Office Recs.; Times, 1 April 1861. H. M. C. DAWSON, THOMAS, M.D. (1725?1782), physician, born about 1725, was the son of Eli Dawson, a dissenter, whose father was one of the ejected ministers of 1662. He himself began life as the minister of a congregation at the Gravel Pit Meeting-house in Hackney, but preferring the practice of physic, he gave up the pulpit, went to Glasgow University, and there graduated M.D. 8 Jane 1753. He soon after began practice in London, occasionally going round the wards of Guy"s Hospital. One day he found a Miss Corbet, a patient of his, sitting in her room gazing at the seventh verse of the twelfth chapter of the second book of Samuel, and taking the words on which her eyes were fixed,"Thou art the man," to express a wish which she had perhaps suggested less directly before, made her an offer of marriage and became her husband 29 May 1758 (nichols, Literary Anecdotes, ix. 694). He was elected physician to the Middlesex Hospi... Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Dictionary of national biography Volume 14 (Sir Leslie Stephen)