Major-General Vesey John Dawson, CVO (4 April 1853 – 17 January 1930) was a British Army officer.

Thomas Vesey Dawson, an officer of the Coldstream Guards who was killed at the Battle of Inkerman;[1] his father was the son of Richard Thomas Dawson, 2nd Baron Cremorne, and his mother the daughter of John FitzPatrick, 1st Baron Castletown.

Vesey Dawson attended Eton College, where his housemaster was Oscar Browning.

[1] Dawson joined the Coldstream Guards in 1871, and served with the Nile Expedition of 1884–85, seeing action at the Battle of Abu Klea.

[2] On 30 May 1902 he was appointed a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, following the presentation of Colours to the regiment.