Reverend William James Dawson (1854-1928) was an English clergyman, lecturer, and author.
Dawson wrote in Autobiography of a Mind, "All around these dismal habitations of the dead, were narrow alleys and foul rookeries, feculent with thronged and neglected human lives..
He found it extremely depressing ministering to impoverished the parish in the south side of London.
He moved to the church of John Wesley, City Road, London in 1887.
In 1879 he married Jane Powell and had three daughters and three sons.
He entered the Wesleyan ministry in 1875.
Born at Towcester, Northamptonshire November 21, 1854, he was educated at Kingswood School in Bath, Somerset, and Didsbury College, Manchester.
He was the father of Coningsby Dawson.
Reverend William James Dawson (1854-1928) was an English clergyman, lecturer, and author
