E. W. Gosse_ (1883), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xxvi_ 68 (1882),
_portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxxi_ 56 (1882), _portrait_; _London
Society_, _xliii_ 345 (1882), _portrait_.
LAWSON, HENRY (younger son of Johnson Lawson, dean of Battle,
_d._ 25 Nov. 1778). _b._ Greenwich 23 March 1774; apprenticed
to Edward Nairne of Cornhill, optician, his mother’s third
husband; member of Spectacle makers’ company, and twice
master; one of original members of Askesian society 1796;
lived at Hereford 1823–41, equipped an observatory there with
a five-foot refractor 1826 and with one of 11 feet 1834, the
finest telescope ever made by Dollond, he afterwards presented
the latter to royal naval school at Greenwich; removed to 7
Lansdown crescent, Bath 1841 where he formed an observatory on
the roof of his house; silver medallist of Royal soc. of arts
for his invention of an observing chair called Reclinea; F.R.
Astron. Soc. 1833; F.R.S. 21 May 1840; published Register of the
quantity of rain that has fallen in the city of Hereford 1836; A
paper on the arrangement of an observatory 1844. _d._ 7 Lansdown
crescent, Bath 23 Aug. 1855.
LAWSON, JAMES. _b._ Glasgow 9 Nov. 1799; ed. at Glasgow univ.;
entered counting house of his uncle at New York 1815; partner
in a mercantile house which failed 1826; associate editor of
Morning Courier 1827–9 and of Mercantile Advertiser 1829–33;
marine insurance agent in New York 1833; author of Tales and
sketches. By A Cosmopolite. New York 1830; Poems. Gleanings
from spare hours of a business life. New York 1857; Giordano,
a tragedy produced at Park theatre, New York, Nov. 1828;
Liddesdale or the border chief, a tragedy 1859; contributed many
articles to periodicals. _d._ Yonkers, New York 20 March 1880.
_Wilson’s Poets and poetry of Scotland_, _ii_ 208–10 (1876).
LAWSON, JAMES ANTHONY (eld. son of James Lawson). _b._ Waterford
1817; ed. at Waterford and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1836,
senior moderator 1837, gold medallist; B.A. 1838, LLB. 1841,
LLD. 1850; Whately professor of political economy 1840–45;
called to Irish bar 1840; Q.C. 29 Jany. 1857; bencher of King’s
Inns 1861; legal adviser to the crown in Ireland 1858–9;
solicitor general for Ireland Feb. 1861, attorney general
1865 to 1866; P.C. Ireland 1865; suppressed the ‘Irish
People’ newspaper 1865; contested Univ. of Dublin 1857; M.P.
Portarlington 1865–8; contested Portarlington 1868; justice of
Court of Common Pleas, Ireland, Dec. 1868; justice of Queen’s
Bench division June 1882 to death; an Irish church comr. July
1869; P.C. 18 May 1870; a comr. for the great seal March to
Dec. 1874; Patrick Delany attempted to murder him while walking
in Kildare st. Dublin 11 Nov. 1882; author of Five lectures on
political economy 1844; author with H. Connor of Reports of
cases in high court of chancery of Ireland during the time of
lord chancellor Sugden 1865. _d._ Shankhill near Dublin 10 Aug.