Richard Lawson of High Riggs, KC (c. 1450–1507) was a Scottish landlord, diplomat and lawyer who was made Lord Provost of Edinburgh in 1492 and Justice-Clerk-General to the King in 1504.
[2] Lawson was trained as a lawyer and largely served the country in the role of ambassador in treaties with England and as King's Council.
[3][4] Lawson joined with Edinburgh merchants in lending money to James III of Scotland in 1482 and 1488, two crisis years of his reign.
Along with Alexander Home of that Ilk, Chamberlain of Scotland, and others, he was one of the Commissioners appointed to ratify the treaty concluded at Coldstream on 5 October 1488 for a three years' truce with England.
[8] He owned a country estate known as Cairnmuir House in the Pentland Hills which he gave to his eldest son, Richard Jr, in October 1504.