Commander Sir Arthur Trevor Dawson, 1st Baronet (1 May 1866 – 19 May 1931), known as Sir Trevor Dawson, was an English

England

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 armaments manufacturer.

Dawson was born in Richmond upon Thames. He became a Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 Cadet

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 in 1879, became a Midshipman

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 in 1881, and was commissioned in 1887. In 1896 he left the Royal Navy to join the armaments firm Vickers

Vickers

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, becoming a director in 1898 and managing director in 1906. He remained in this post until his death.

Dawson was knighted

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 in 1909. He was to have been raised to the peerage

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 in the 1917 New Year Honours, but his name was removed from the list at the last minute, probably because of the unpopularity of the armaments companies. He was, however, created a Baronet

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 in the 1920 New Year Honours.

He died suddenly of heart failure at his home in Elstree

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, Hertfordshire

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. The Baronetcy

Dawson Baronets

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passed to his son, Sir Hugh Trevor Dawson.