George Robert Dawson (24 December 1790 – 3 April 1856), was an Anglo-Irish Tory politician.
He was educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford, where he became friends with Robert Peel, whose sister Dawson later married.
[1] He served under Lord Liverpool as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department from 1822 to 1827 and under the Duke of Wellington as Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 1828 to 1830.
In 1830 he was returned to Parliament for Harwich, a seat he held for two years,[2] and sworn of the Privy Council.
He died in 1856 leaving five children, including Robert Peel Dawson, also an MP.