Lawson baronets of Brough Hall (second creation, 1841)

The Lawson, later Howard-Lawson baronetcy, of Brough Hall in the County of York, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 8 September 1841 for William Lawson.

[1] His mother had previously inherited the Lawson family seat of Brough Hall.

The 6th Baronet assumed by Royal Licence in 1962 the Howard name and arms and then resumed use of the Lawson name in 1992.

[3] The title passed to his younger brother William, the 5th Baronet, and the seat moved to Corby Castle, Cumbria, ancestral home of Sir Francis Howard.

[4][5] The heir is Sir John's son, Philip William Howard, born 1961.