Modern English biography

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.