Andrew Lawson (MP)

Andrew Lawson (1800 – 28 February 1853)[2] of Aldborough Lodge and Boroughbridge Hall, both in Yorkshire, and of 26 Pall Mall, London,[3] was a British Conservative politician.[4]

Andrew Lawson
Arms of Lawson of Boroughbridge, Yorkshire: Paly of four gules and vert, on a chevron argent a greyhound's head erased sable between two cinquefoils azure on a chief or an ogress thereon a demi-lion rampant argent between two crescents of the fourth on each three plates[1]
Member of Parliament
for Knaresborough
In office
29 June 1841  29 August 1847
Serving with William Ferrand
Preceded byHenry Rich
Charles Langdale
Succeeded byWilliam Lascelles
Joshua Westhead
In office
8 January 1835  24 July 1837
Serving with John Richards
Preceded byJohn Richards
Benjamin Rotch
Succeeded byHenry Rich
Charles Langdale
Personal details
Born1800
Died28 February 1853(1853-02-28) (aged 52–53)
NationalityBritish
Political partyConservative

After unsuccessfully contesting the 1832 general election at Knaresborough, Lawson was elected Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for the same constituency at the 1835 general election. He, however, lost the seat two years later, before regaining it in 1841 and holding it until 1847, when he was again defeated. Once more, he contested the seat at a by-election in 1851, but was unsuccessful.[4][5]

References

  1. As Lawson of Polpleton and Moreby, Yorkshire (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.590), but with chevron argent not or. As seen impaled by Dunn-Gardner in heraldic floor tiles in choir of Ely Cathedral (File:Dunn-GardnerArms ElyCathedral.xcf) in arms of John Dunn-Gardner (1811-1903), of Chatteris House, Isle of Ely, in Cambridgeshire, son-in-law of Andrew Lawson. "In the wide treading of one of the steps at the end of the stalled choir are placed the arms of some of the benefactors to the restoration of the Cathedral, executed by Messrs. Minton. In the centre are the arms of the Duke of Bedford; on the south side those of Alexander Beresford Hope, Esq., and the Rev. T. Halford; on the north those of J. Dunn Gardner, Esq., and J.C. Sharpe, Esq." (Handbook to the Cathedral Church of Ely, New Edition, Revised, 1880)
  2. Rayment, Leigh (13 June 2017). "The House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "K"". Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page. Archived from the original on 15 November 2018. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  3. History of Parliament biography
  4. Stooks Smith, Henry (1845). The Parliaments of England, from 1st George I., to the Present Time. Vol II: Oxfordshire to Wales Inclusive. London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. pp. 150–155. Retrieved 15 November 2018 via Google Books.
  5. Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. p. 171. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
John Richards
Benjamin Rotch
Member of Parliament for Knaresborough
18351837
With: John Richards
Succeeded by
Henry Rich
Charles Langdale
Preceded by
Henry Rich
Charles Langdale
Member of Parliament for Knaresborough
18411847
With: William Ferrand
Succeeded by
William Lascelles
Joshua Westhead
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