Marmaduke Lawson

(1792-1823)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Lawson, M. (Marmaduke), 1793?-1823 LBT ID: MaLawso1839 VIAF ID: 63002299 LOC ID: n85312405	B/BAP: 1792-07-10 DIED: 1823-03-10
SOURCES: Gentleman's Magazine (June 1823) 570; J. E. Auden, Shrewsbury School Register, 1734-1908 (1909) 22; Virtual International Authority File; historyofparliamentonline.org; LOC Name Authority File
Educated at Shrewsbury, St. John's College, Cambridge, and Magdalen College, Oxford, he was MP for Boroughbridge in Yorkshire (1818-20) with a reputation as an eccentric and humorist.
REFERENCES TO Marmaduke Lawson: Sydney Smith to Lady Grey, [26 January? 1819] 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) Found 1: ¶ 1 Saba Holland, 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) Letters 1819