Sir Gilfrid Lawson, 6th Baronet

[1] Lawson matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford on 19 October 1695[2] and was admitted at Gray's Inn in 1700.

On 4 April 1717, after James Stanhope had offended several members after moving that parliament grant the King supplies to subsidise foreign powers, Lawson declared that no one but ‘such as ... were not the King’s friends’ could refuse to support the vote of credit for measures against Sweden.

[4] According to records, Lawson's inflammatory response accused the speaker of ‘interfering with freedom of debate’.

On 6 April 1723, he opposed the bill of pains and penalties against Francis Atterbury on the grounds of insufficiency of evidence.

No further speeches by Lawson are reported till 1730, when he spoke in favour of removing the duty on salt, as most affecting the poor.

At the 1734 general election, he retired, giving his interest to his first cousin once removed, Sir Joseph Pennington, having ‘broke with all other considerable people in the county’.