Robert MacGregor Dawson
Robert MacGregor Dawson | |
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Born | Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, Canada | 1 March 1895
Died | 16 July 1958 Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, Canada | (aged 63)
Other names | R. MacGregor Dawson |
Spouse | Sarah Ada Foster |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | |
Thesis | The Principle of Official Independence |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Political science |
Institutions | |
Notable students | Gordon Robertson[1] |
Notable works | The Government of Canada (1947–1970) |
Robert MacGregor Dawson political scientist who served as Professor of Political Economy at the University of Toronto. He is best known as coauthor with Norman Ward of the 1947 textbook The Government of Canada.[2][verification needed]
Born on 1 March 1895 in
Royal Canadian Garrison Artillery. He received a Master of Arts degree from Harvard University in 1917 and Master of Science and Doctor of Science degrees in economics from the University of London (where he studied at the London School of Economics) in 1921 and 1922 respectively.[3][4]
In 1921, he started teaching at Dalhousie University before leaving to teach at the
Carnegie Institute of Technology and Rutgers University. In 1928, he returned to Canada as head of the political science department at the University of Saskatchewan. In 1937, he started teaching at the University of Toronto. He left in 1951 to write a biography of Prime Minister of Canada William Lyon Mackenzie King.[3]
He finished the first volume before his death in Bridgewater NS, in 1958.
He was married to Sarah Ada Foster (1896–1969). They had two sons: Robert MacGregor Dawson (1927–2000; Carnegie Professor of English, University of King's College (Dalhousie University), Halifax, NS) and William Foster Dawson (1930–2011; Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Western Ontario, London, ON). Dawson died on 16 July 1958.
In 1975, he was named a
Person of National Historic Significance.[5]
See also
References
- ^ https://books.google.com/books?id=zpWBvqjHtzIC&dq=%22under+macgregor+dawson%22&pg=PA32 p. 32
- ^ Neatby, H. Blair. "Robert MacGregor Dawson". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
- ^ S2CID 163236671.
- ^ Sessional Papers. The Legislature. 1939.
- ^ "Dawson, Robert MacGregor National Historic Person". Directory of Designations of National Historic Significance of Canada. Retrieved 2023-05-13.