George Dawson
1821–76
Preacher and political activist. MA, Glasgow University, 1841. Pastor, Church of the Saviour, Birmingham, 1848–76. A popular lecturer in Birmingham and Manchester, and a friend of many continental radicals. Editor of the Birmingham Mercury, 1848; Daily Free Press, 1855; Birmingham Morning News, 1871. Promoter of the public library movement. Supporter of Lawson Tait, whom he employed as a writer on the Birmingham Morning News.
Sources
ODNB
ODNB s.v. Tait, (Robert) Lawson
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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