Editing William Rutter Dawes (section)

==Family==

Dawes married twice. His first wife was Mary Scott née Egerton (1764-1840). They married on  13 January 1824 at Haddenham, Buckinghamshire.<ref>Buckinghamshire Marriage Index, findmypast (subscription required)</ref> She was the widow of his tutor, [[Thomas Scott (commentator)|Thomas Scott]].<ref name="odnb" /> On 28 July 1842 Dawes married Ann Welsby née Coupland (1805-1860).<ref name="odnb">Marriott, R A, [https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/7337 Dawes, William Rutter (1799–1868)] ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (via libraries)</ref> She was the widow of Ormskirk solicitor John Welsby (1800-1839)<ref name="odnb" /> whom she had married on 16 January 1824.<ref>England Marriages 1538-1973, findmypast (subscription required)</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan=2 | William Rutter Dawes' grave, St Mary's Church, Haddenham, Buckinghamshire.
|-
| <poem><div style="text-align: center;">REV DR WILLIAM RUTTER DAWES FRAS FRS
BORN 19 MAR 1799 DIED 15 FEB 1868
ASTRONOMER
HE MARRIED TWO WIDOWS MRS THOMAS SCOTT AND MRS JOHN WELSBY AND SURVIVED THEM BOTH
HE BUILT HOPEFIELD IN 1857 AND LIVED THERE UNTIL HIS DEATH</div></poem> || |[[File:William Rutter Dawes grave Haddenham Buckinghamshire.jpg|thumb]]
|}