When Thomas finished school, he was employed as an agent and interpreter in McCormack’s timber company.
During the Niger mission.3 Thomas George Lawson’s youngest child was Catherine Sarah Ann.
Thomas George Lawson and his family were members of the African elite in Sierra Leone.
In 1846, Governor Macdonald began to use Thomas Lawson as his personal messenger to Port Loko’s rulers and to other African territories.
After 1872, he was the head of a developing African bureau, and in 1878 he became the protector of government guest Lawson’s evaluation of the importance of Muslim communities for the development of British interests was in accordance with the ideas of the Colonial Office, Sierra Leone officials, and a few Europeans.
This allowed him to mediate disputes, to facilitate the growth of trade, and to expand British influence beyond the colony.
Thomas George Lawson was highly praised in his career and left his mark in several different aspects.
These tens of thousands of pages has provided scholars with valuable data about many aspects of political, social, and economic affairs in Guinea and Sierra Leone.
His connections with these states and their rulers helped him establish strong ties and made him and his family very influential people.
Thomas Lawson used his position as government interpreter to create a staff of assistants and Arabic letter writers that provided governors with intelligence about “native affairs” and helped to build British influence in what became the Protectorate of Sierra Leone.