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George Lawson (minister)
George Lawson may refer to: * George Lawson (MP for York) (1493–1543), English member of parliament * George Lawson (English clergyman) (1598–1678), English divine and writer * George Lawson (Scottish minister) (1749–1820), Scottish minister and biblical scholar * George Lawson (botanist) (1827–1895), Canadian botanist * George Anderson Lawson (1832–1904), British sculptor * George Mervyn Lawson (1865–1945), South African clergyman * George Lawson (Australian politician) (1880–1966), Australian politician * George Lawson (RAF officer) (1899–1922), South African World War I flying ace * George Lawson (MP for Motherwell) (1906–1978), Scottish member of parliament, 1954–1974 * 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 gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Lawson (MP For York)
Sir George Lawson was one of two Members of the Parliament of England for the City of York (UK Parliament constituency), 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 Anne Horsley of Thernham. In 1516 he married Elizabeth and they had at least two sons, one named George, and one daughter named Anne. He was knighted in May 1530. Throughout his life, he held many offices in both the city of York and for the Crown. He was Deputy Captain in the garrison of Berwick-upon-Tweed in 1514. He became a member of the Corpus Christi Guild in 1516 and an alderman from 1527 until his death in 1543. He served one term as Lord Mayor of York in 1530 as well as the two terms as MP for the city, sitting with George Gale. He also held the position of cofferer, or treasurer, in the household of Henry FitzRoy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset between 1526 and 1534. He was appointed Justic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. Lawson was a supporter of the parliament, and accordingly retained his rectory during the Commonwealth. Lawson wrote to Baxter on the appearance of the latter's ''Aphorismes of Justification'', 1649, and Baxter valued his criticisms; "especially", he writes, "his instigating me to the study of politicks ..did prove a singular benefit to me". Baxter says that he had seen in manuscript arguments by Lawson in favour of taking the engagement. He became rector of More, Shropshire, before 22 April 1686. His religious views inclined to Arminianism. He was buried at More 12 July 1678. Lawson, who was certainly not a Yorkshireman, must be distinguished from George Lawson (1606–1670) of Moreby, son of George Lawson of Poppleton, Yorkshire, who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 (and Scottish Socrates of the period)". Life Born at the farm of Boghouse, in the parish of West Linton, Peeblesshire, on 13 March 1749, he was the second son of Charles Lawson, a farmer and carpenter, and his wife Margaret Noble: he was the only one of six sons who survived childhood. His father taught George, who was studious. His parents then sent him to John Johnston(e), Secession Church minister at Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire. Lawson went to the University of Edinburgh, and later studied divinity under John Swanston of Kinross, and John Brown of Haddington, successive professors of theology in the Associate Secession (Burgher) church. At age 21 he was licensed as a preacher, and receiving a call from the congregation of Burgher seceders ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 University. He helped to create one of Canada's first botanical gardens. In 1868, he became Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy at Dalhousie University. He was a charter member of the Royal Society of Canada The Royal Society of Canada (RSC; french: Société royale du Canada, SRC), also known as the Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada (French: ''Académies des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada''), is the senior national, bil ... and from 1887 to 1888 was its president. References External links * 19th-century Canadian botanists Scottish botanists Scottish curators Scottish librarians 1827 births 1895 deaths Botanists active in North America Academics of the University of Edinburgh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 was educated at George Heriot's Hospital. He trained under Alexander Handyside Ritchie, and in the schools of the Royal Scottish Academy. Lawson travelled to study in Rome, becoming an admirer of John Gibson (sculptor), John Gibson. Back in England, he lived initially in Liverpool, making work in terracotta. His reputation was established through the creation of statues of distinguished citizens. His first major work was the statue of the Duke of Wellington at the top of Wellington's Column in the centre of Liverpool at the end of William Brown Street. He also created the relief sculpture depicting Wellington's major victory at Waterloo. The monument was completed "towards the end of 1865 when George Lawson's relief panel of the final battle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Mervyn Lawson
The Venerable Fr George Merwyn Lawson (1865–1945) served as archdeacon of Kuruman, 1913–1941, in the Anglican Diocese of Kimberley and Kuruman, and as Director of Missions for Griqualand West from 1903 until his death. Early life He was the second son of George Lawson of London, and was educated at Westminster School and King's College, London. He matriculated at Pembroke College, Oxford in 1886, graduating B.A. in 1889. Ministry Initially on the staff of St Cyprian's Church in Kimberley, Lawson was in charge of the four ‘location’ missions in that town, based at St Matthew's, Kimberley, around the turn of the twentieth century. At this time he commenced “outlying work” in the rural hinterland, leaving a description of Mass in a “rough hut of sticks”, the altar “a packing case with my portable altar on the top – yet all was reverent as in a cathedral” – “it reminded me of Bethlehem.” His most distant mission work in 1905 was at Khosis north of Postm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Lawson (Australian Politician)
George Lawson (14 August 1880 – 25 November 1966) was an Australian trade union official and politician. Lawson was born in South Pine River, near Caboolture, Queensland, and educated at Warner State School. He fought in the Boer War in South Africa with the 5th (Queensland Imperial Bushmen) Contingent in 1901–02 and was mentioned in dispatches. He married Rebecca Jane Buchanan in 1907 and they had two sons but she died in 1918. In 1907, he helped found the ''Brisbane Trolleymen, Draymen and Carter's Union'' and was elected its secretary in 1908. The union later became the Carters and Drivers' Union and in 1912 he was elected its general secretary, a position he held for almost twenty years. He was president of the Trades and Labour Council of Queensland in 1924 and 1927. At the time of his election to the House of Representatives, he was secretary of the Road Transport Workers' Union. Political career Lawson was elected an alderman of the Windsor Town Council from 1916 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Lawson (RAF Officer)
Lieutenant George Edgar Bruce Lawson was a South African World War I flying ace credited with six aerial victories. Early life Lawson was born on 26 April 1899 in Cape Town, Cape Colony. After the Union of South Africa was formed the family travelled by train and then by ox wagon to Johannesburg. World War I Lawson was assigned to 32 Squadron in April 1918. He scored his first victory on 7 June 1918, driving down an Albatros D.V while flying Royal Aircraft Factory SE5a No. C1881. He then used No. E1399 to drive down two Fokker D.VIIs and destroy three others during September 1918. The last of those triumphs, his second of 27 September, resulted in the death in action of noted German ace Fritz Rumey of ''Jagdstaffel 5''. Lawson and Rumey collided in midair. Rumey bailed out, but his parachute failed to open. Lawson nursed his crippled plane back to the British lines. He was later awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. The citation read: Postwar Lawson joined the South Afri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 his retirement at the October 1974 general election. Career Lawson was educated at elementary schools in North Merchiston, Edinburgh. He had been active in the labour movement for 20 years prior to becoming an MP. He was a tutor for the National Council of Labour Colleges from 1937 until 1950, which included a period of time serving as the council's West of Scotland organiser. He became the secretary of Edinburgh Trades Council (subsequently Edinburgh and District Trades Council) in 1950 and also served on the Scottish Advisory Committee of the Labour Party. Following his election as an MP, Lawson was made an opposition whip and then, after Labour's return to power in 1964, a government whip. From 1966 to 1967 he was Deputy Chief Governme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Lawson (judge)
George Lawson was a Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Ceylon. Lawson was a co-founder of the Law Library of Colombo and it is believed he was of Jewish Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ... origin. References Citations Bibliography * {{Creasy-court Sri Lankan Jews Puisne Justices of the Supreme Court of Ceylon 19th-century Sri Lankan people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 tenor), George Lawson (second tenor) and Edward Ware ( bass). George Lawson was replaced by Willie James (Jimmy) Lundy in 1950, who became first tenor, with Vernon Gardner switching to second tenor. Other personnel changes took place during the group's long history, although Douglass remained as a constant throughout. Musical career The group began at Hampton Institute, now known as Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia. Initial success came about through their winning a talent competition on the radio which, in turn, led to further radio and stage appearances. During World War II, they toured extensively for the USO entertaining US troops abroad. In 1952, their song "Recess in Heaven" became their first hit. They also toured with Bill "Boja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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