a Scotch clergyman, son of Reverend John Dawson, took his degree at Edinburgh University, November 9, 1722; studied divinity at Glasgow University in 1725; was licensed to preach the same year; presented to the living at Langton, and ordained August 18, 1727; transferred to the West Kirk, St. Cuthbert's, Edinburgh, January 31, 1733; and died January 22, 1735, aged thirty-three years. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 1:122, 419.