LAWSON, Gilfrid (1675-1749), of Brayton, Cumb. and Gray’s Inn

b. 1675, 1st s. of Wilfred Lawson† of Brayton by Sarah, da. and coh. of William James of Washington, co. Dur. educ. Queen’s, Oxf. 19 Oct. 1695; G. Inn 1700, called 1702, 1728. unm. suc. fa. 1710; cos. as 6th Bt. and to Isel estate 8 Aug. 1743. Hutchinson, Cumb. ii. 241–2; Surtees, Dur. i. 216; C. Roy Hudleston and R. S. Boumphrey, Cumb. Fams. and Heraldry (Cumb. and Westmld. Antiq. and Arch. Soc. extra ser. xxiii), 199.