Captain James Massy-Dawson

Eldest son of James Hewitt Massy-Dawson (q.v.), a Captain in the 14th Light Dragoons, inherited a share of Prospect Pen and Pembroke Hall estates from his mother Eliza Jane Dennis.

1. Born 02/05/1802 in Marylebone, Westminster, to James Hewitt Massy-Dawson and Eliza Jane Dennis.

2. Graduated from Exeter College, Oxford, 02/05/1821 and became a Captain in the 14th Light Dragoons. Died, unmarried, 09/07/1837.

3. There is a portrait of Captain James Massy-Dawson in the Royal Collection.

4. For the Ballynacourte estate, see the NUI Galway Landed Estates Database.

Ballynacourte was the seat of the Massy-Dawsons in the C18th and C19th; occupied by J. H. Massy Dawson in 1837 and by the Reverend John M. Dawson in the early 1850s.

T71/856 St Mary Nos. 336 and 387.

1. Ancestry.com, London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 [database online].

2. Joseph Foster (compiler), Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886 (4 vols., Oxford, Parker and Co., 1888) Vol. 1 p. 355.

3. http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/eGallery/object.asp?category=276&object=407104&row=1691.

4. http://www.landedestates.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=2574.