Charles McBeth Dawson (died 5 February 1956) was a New Zealand doctor who worked in Niue, Tonga and Western Samoa.
He was involved in both world wars, and served as a member of Legislative Council of Samoa between 1938 and 1941.
Dawson moved to Niue in 1913,[1] before becoming Chief Medical Officer in the New Zealand expeditionary force that occupied German Samoa at the start of World War I.
[2] He then moved onto Palestine, where he served in the ANZAC Mounted Division and was mentioned in dispatches.
[2] At the end of the war he moved to Tonga, where he served as Chief Medical Officer for fourteen years.