The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Dawson, James
Dawson, James, was born at Bonnytown, Linlithgow, Scotland, and arrived in Melbourne, Vict., in May 1840. He took up a station on the Yarra, but after three or four years removed to the Port Fairy district, where he continued squatting. He is author of "Australian Aborigines," published in 1881 (Robertson, Melbourne).