George Lawson was born in 1598, and educated at Puritan Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

[1] Lawson was a supporter of the parliament, and accordingly retained his rectory during the Commonwealth.

[2] Lawson wrote to Baxter on the appearance of the latter's Aphorismes of Justification, 1649, and Baxter valued his criticisms; "especially", he writes, "his instigating me to the study of politicks [...] did prove a singular benefit to me".

Baxter says that he had seen in manuscript arguments by Lawson in favour of taking the engagement.

[2] Lawson, who was certainly not a Yorkshireman, must be distinguished from George Lawson (1606–1670) of Moreby, son of George Lawson of Poppleton, Yorkshire, who became rector of Eykring, Northamptonshire, and who may be identical with the George Lawson who was ejected as a royalist from the vicarage of Mears Ashby, Northamptonshire, by the parliamentarians (Walker, Attempt, ii.