Richard Dawes
bap. 1793 d. 1867
Clergyman and educationist. Mathematical tutor and bursar of Downing College, Cambridge, 1818–36. Rector of King’s Somborne, Hampshire, 1837–50; dean of Hereford, 1850; master of St Catherine’s Hospital, Ledbury, 1861. Founded schools for the children of the poor and took an interest in Ledbury’s national schools.
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ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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