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Francis Warrington Dawson, Jr.
Facts and Events
"Military & Naval Forces, South Carolina," 1920 census:[2]
- NOTE: It's unclear what this heading means.
- Dawson, Warrington Head 41 yrs (single) b. South Carolina (parents, b. England/Louisiana) Diplomat
U.S. Consular Service, Paris, 1930 census:[3]
- Dawson, Warrington Head 51 yrs (single) b. South Carolina (parents, b. England/Louisiana) Special Asst. to American Embassy
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Find A Grave.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 United States. 1920 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T625)
ED __, p. __, dwelling/family ---/---.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 United States. 1930 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T626)
ED __, p. 1A, dwelling/family ---/7.
- U.S. Consular Registration of American Citizens
29 Nov 1910.
Francis Warrington Dawson is registered as an American citizen.
Born 27 Sep 1878 Charleston, S.C.
Arrived in Paris, Nov 1899, where he now resides for the purposes of newspaper and literary work.
Unmarried.
Citizenship established by his passport no. 1773, issued by the American Embassy at Paris, 23 Feb 1904.
Nearest relative: Herbert Barry, 34 Nassau St, N.Y.
- Charleston (South Carolina) News & Courier
p. 1, 24 Sep 1962.
Warrington Dawson Dies at Versailles
Warrington Dawson, historian, novelist, diplomatic chronicler and reporter died at his home in Versailles, France, Sunday morning at the age of 84.
Mr. Dawson was born Sept. 27, 1878, in Charleston. His father, Capt. Francis Warrington Dawson, became first editor of the News and Courier, when he bought out the old Charleston News and acquired the Charleston Courier with Bartholomew R. Riordan in 1873.
His mother, Sarah, a daughter of Judge Thomas Gibbs [sic] Morgan, was an author and, for a number of years, editorial contributor and literary critic for The News and Courier.
An attempt on his life in 1917 when he was attached to the American Embassy in Paris left him an invalid. After 1920 he was never able to leave his Versailles home.
Mr. Dawson began his journalistic career early. Between the ages of nine and thirteen he wrote a number of criticisms of children's books and magazines for The News and Courier. At sixteen he started contributing occasional feature articles to his father's paper, dealing principally with colonial and revolutionary subjects.
He had learned French in infancy from his New Orleans mother. His first schooling was in Paris, and then in Switzerland but he returned to Charleston to complete his education. He attended the College of Charleston for five years, but did not graduate.
At twenty he crossed the Atlantic from Charleston to Barcelona on a tramp steamer, being in Spain during the critical weeks preceding the Spanish-American War. He was next in Paris during the heat of the Dreyfus agitation, in Belgium at the time of the socialist strike-riots, and in Russo during part of the Russo-Japanese War. He went to Africa with Theodore Roosevelt and was in France at the outbreak of World War I.
Through his wide travels be became a close friend with many well-known people including Theodore Roosevelt, Sarah Bernhardt, Auguste Rodin, Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas A. Edison, and Marshal Joffre.
Mr. Dawson was the author several novels. After "The Scar" and "The Scourge" were published, Theodore Roosevelt in an editorial in "The Outlook" said: "This author writes with power and interest of vital home matters."
Long after his illness kept him a virtual prisoner in his Versailles home, Mr. Dawson was still contributing articles to various publications. Many of his columns have appeared in The News and Courier. He always regarded himself as much a newspaperman as a diplomat.
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