Lawson baronets of Brayton (1831)

Escutcheon of the Lawson baronets of Brayton

The Lawson baronetcy, of Brayton in the County of Cumberland, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 30 September 1831 for Wilfrid Lawson. Born Wilfrid Wybergh, he was the son of Thomas Wybergh by the sister of the 10th Baronet of the 1688 creation. He assumed by Royal licence the surname of Lawson in lieu of Wybergh.[1]

The 2nd and 3rd Baronets were both Members of Parliament.[2][3] The title became extinct on the death of the 4th Baronet in 1959.[4]

Lawson baronets, of Brayton (1831)

Notes

  1. ^ a b Burke, John Bernard (1852). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Colburn. p. 595.
  2. ^ a b "Lawson, Sir Wilfrid". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ a b "Lawson, Sir Wilfrid". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. ^ a b "Lawson, Major Sir Hilton". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
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Lawson baronets
of Brayton
30 September 1831 		Succeeded by