George Dawson was an English builder, property developer and alderman. The son of a village labourer, he was a self-made man who started as a cooper, became a rich entrepreneur and built himself a mansion.
George Dawson (builder)
Ashfield house, far right, above Farrah's
Vanderbilt Court, Dawson's residence
Prospect Crescent (left)
A self-made man, is a person whose success is of their own making.
Benjamin Franklin, c. 1785. Oil by Duplessis
Frederick Douglass, photographed between 1850 and 1860.
Sketch of English novelist Charles Dickens in 1842. Juliet John backed up the claim for Dickens "to be called the first self-made global media star of the age of mass culture."