DAWSON, GEORGE GEOFFREY ), editor of The Times, 1912-1919, and again from 1923 to the present date (1938). He was educated at Eton and Magdalen college, Oxford, and was elected a fellow of All Souls college in 1900. Pass ing into the civil service, he was appointed to the Colonial Office, and in 1901 he went to South Africa as private secretary to Lord Milner, then high commissioner. On Lord Milner's retirement from the high commissionership in 1905 he accepted the editorship of the Johannesburg Star, which he held for the next four years. Returning to London in 1910, he was appointed a director of The Times, which was then in the early days of Lord Northcliffe's direction, and in 1912 succeeded G. E. Buckle as editor. The conspicuous success which The Times attained during the difficult years of the World War was largely due to Dawson's sound judg ment and knowledge of affairs, which formed an admirable and often very necessary complement to Lord Northcliffe's imagina tion and genius. In 1919, however, Dawson found himself unable to carry out Lord Northcliffe's policy for The Times and resigned. He was succeeded by Henry Wickham Steed (q.v.). When in consequence of Lord Northcliffe's death in 1923 The Times was reconstructed, Steed retired and Dawson was recalled to the edi torship. During his absence from journalism he was estates bur sar of All Souls college (1919-1-3) and secretary to the Rhodes Trust (1921-22).