Eric Vernon Lawson OBE (1910 – 1 July 1993),[1] was an Australian businessman and politician in the Solomon Islands.
The Lawson Tama Stadium in the capital Honiara is named after him.
[6] In June 1965 Lawson and North Malaita MP Mariano Kelesi established the Democratic Party in an attempt to gain support for forming a government.
He moved to Brisbane when he retired in 1974, at which point his company was taken over by C Sullivan Export.
[2] He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for "services to the community".