Sir Gilfrid Lawson, 6th Baronet

Who is Sir Gilfrid Lawson, 6th Baronet?

Sir Gilfrid Lawson, 6th Baronet, was an English politician. He was one of the Lawson Baronets.

Upon the death of Mardaunt Lawson, the title and all of the estate passed to his cousin Gilfrid Lawson the grandson of Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 1st Baronet, of Isell, Member of Parliament Cumberland 1660, who had left Isel Hall to his eldest son, the father of Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 1st Baronet, of Isell, and Brayton, Cumberland to his second son, Gilfrid’s father. Sir Gilfrid Lawson 6th Bart was Member of Parliament for the Cumberland constituency from 1702–1705 and also from 1707-34. A moderate Tory, though a member of the October Club, he voted after 1715 consistently against the Government. In parliament he was plain Mr Lawson and two parliamentary speeches are recorded in the parliamentary proceedings. On 4 April 1717, after James Stanhope had offended several members after moving that parliament grant the King supplies to subsidise foreign powers, Lawson declared that no one but ‘such as ... were not the King’s friends’ could refuse to support the vote of credit for measures against Sweden. He further said that if a Member must be accounted an enemy to the King when he happens not to fall in with his ministers ... they had nothing else to do but to retire to their country seats. According to records Lawson's inflammatory response accused the speaker of ‘interfering with freedom of debate’. An extract from Tindal's England records: