William J.Dawson Reverend William James Dawson, an English priest, speaker, and author, lived from 1854 until 1928. He was Coningsby Dawson's father. He was educated at Didsbury College in Manchester and Kingswood School in Bath, Somerset, where he was born on November 21, 1854, in Towcester, Northamptonshire. In 1875, he began serving in the Wesleyan church. He had three daughters and three boys after marrying Jane Powell in 1879. In 1887, he relocated to the John Wesley Church on City Road in London. Serving a poor parish in the south of London made him feel incredibly depressed. Coningsby W. Dawson Coningsby Dawson, a Canadian Field Artillery veteran and Anglo-American author, was born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, on February 26, 1883, and passed away on August 10, 1959. Dawson enrolled at Merton College in Oxford in 1902, graduating in 1905 with a second-class degree in modern history. He studied theology at Union Seminary for a year before deciding to become a writer. He travelled extensively at this time while working specifically on Canadian topics for English newspapers in America the same year. From 1906 until 1910, he resided in Taunton, Massachusetts, where he worked as the George H. Doran Publishing Company's literary consultant.