The third son of Sir Robert Lawley, fifth baronet; educated at Rugby and Christ Church, Oxford, he was a Whig MP for Wenlock and the East Riding, created first Baron Wenlock in 1839.

REFERENCES TO Paul Beilby Lawley-Thompson, first Baron Wenlock:

Sydney Smith to Caroline Neville Lawley-Thompson, 6 August 1829 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)

Sydney Smith to the Hon. Caroline Lawley-Thompson, [September?] 1842 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)