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Auction: 19003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 587

The Society of Arts Manufacturers and Commerce silver Medal awarded to Commander Sir A. T. Dawson, Bt., Royal Navy

Society of Arts Manufacturers and Commerce Medal, 56mm, silver, E.VII.R., the edge impressed 'Lieutenant Arthur Trevor Dawson, late R.N., for his paper on "Modern Artillery." Society's Session 1900-1901.', contact marks and one or two edge bruises, very fine

Arthur Trevor Dawson, 1st Baronet was born on 1 May 1866 at Richmond-upon-Thames and was commissioned Midshipman in the Royal Navy in 1881. Dawson left the Navy in order to pursue a long and successful career with armaments manufacturer Vickers in 1896. It was with Vickers that he spent the remainder of his career, serving as Managing Director from 1906 to his death in May 1931. During this period he was knighted in 1909 and raised to the peerage in 1920.

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