Of Braighton, the son of Gilfrid Lawson (d. 1796); he was Sheriff of Cumberland (1801) and an art collector and patron of the arts.

REFERENCES TO Sir Wilfrid Lawson, tenth baronet:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Godwin, [11 September 1800] in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876)