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 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 1 ...
(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 (1832–1904), British sculptor
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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 s ...
(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.
Lawson was born in South Pine River, near Caboolture, Queensland, and educated at Warner State School. He fought in the Boer War in Sout ...
(1880–1966), Australian politician
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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 trav ...
(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 h ...
(1906–1978), Scottish member of parliament, 1954–1974
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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 grou ...
, 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 teno ...
* 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 2,759 people.
Geography
The suburb is approximately north of the centre o ...
, Australia
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