Brigadier-General Sir Douglas Frederick Rawdon Dawson, GCVO, KCB, CMG (25 April 1854 – 20 January 1933) was a British Army officer and courtier.

[citation needed] Dawson saw service with the Anglo-Egyptian War, where he fought at the battles of Mahuta, Kassassin, Tel el-Kebir and the capture of Cairo.

In the Nile Expedition of 1884–85, he was part of the Guards' Camel Corps, was mentioned in despatches, and saw action at the Battle of Abu Klea.

He received a brevet promotion to colonel on 19 May 1901, and the following year returned to the United Kingdom where he was in command of the 10th Provisional Battalion stationed at Dover from March to December 1902.

Their adopted daughter, Rosemary Dawson, married Lieutenant-Colonel Vernon Erskine-Crum; the couple had one son, Brigadier Douglas Erskine Crum.