George Lawson may refer to:
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George Lawson (MP for York)
Sir George Lawson was one of two Members of the Parliament of England for the constituency of York on two occasions from 1529 to 1533 and from 1533 to 1536.
Life and politics
George was born around 1493 to William Lawson of Cramlington and A ...
(1493–1543), English member of parliament
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George Lawson (English clergyman)
George Lawson (1598–1678) was an English divine and writer. He was also rector of More, Shropshire.
Biography
George Lawson was born in 1598, and educated at Puritan Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Lawson was a protégé of William Laud.
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(1598–1678), English divine and writer
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George Lawson (Scottish minister)
George Lawson D.D. (1749–1820) was a Scottish minister of the Secession Church, known as a biblical scholar. Thomas Carlyle, in an 1870 letter to Lawson's biographer John Macfarlane, called him "a most superlative steel-grey Scottish peasant (an ...
(1749–1820), Scottish minister and biblical scholar
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George Lawson (botanist)
George Lawson (October 12, 1827 – November 10, 1895) was a Scottish-Canadian botanist who is considered the "father of Canadian botany".
Born in Scotland, in 1858, he was appointed the Professor of Chemistry and Natural History at Queen's Un ...
(1827–1895), Canadian botanist
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George Anderson Lawson
George Anderson Lawson (Edinburgh 1832 – 23 September 1904) was a British Victorian era sculptor who was associated with the New Sculpture movement.
Life
He was born at Edinburgh in 1832, the son of David Lawson and Anne Campbell. He w ...
(1832–1904), British sculptor
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George Mervyn Lawson (1865–1945), South African clergyman
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George Lawson (Australian politician)
George Lawson (14 August 1880 – 25 November 1966) was an Australian trade union official and politician. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and served as a member of the House of Representatives from 1931 to 1961, representing ...
(1880–1966), Australian politician
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George Lawson (RAF officer) (1899–1922), South African World War I flying ace
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George Lawson (MP for Motherwell)
George McArthur Lawson (11 July 1906 – 3 July 1978) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was the Member of Parliament for Motherwell from a by-election in 1954 until February 1974, and then for Motherwell and Wishaw until ...
(1906–1978), Scottish member of parliament, 1954–1974
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George Lawson (judge), judge in Ceylon
* George Lawson, American singer from the vocal group
Deep River Boys
The Deep River Boys were an American gospel music group active from the mid-1930s and into the 1980s. The group performed spirituals, gospel, and R&B.
Members
The original group consisted of Harry Douglass (baritone), Vernon Gardner (first ten ...
* George "Yorkey" Lawson, Yorkshire-born fisherman and namesake of
Yorkeys Knob, Queensland
Yorkeys Knob is a coastal Suburbs and localities (Australia), suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Yorkeys Knob had a population of 2,794 people.
Yorkeys Knob is frequently listed as an Place names considered u ...
, Australia
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