Name John Lawson | Died 1852 | |
Books Historical Tales of the Wars of Scotland, and of the Border Raids, Forays, and Conflicts |
John Parker Lawson (died 1852) was a clergyman of the Episcopal Church of Scotland and historian.
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Life
Ordained a minister in the Episcopal Church of Scotland, he was for some time a chaplain in the British Army. Later he lived in Edinburgh, writing for the booksellers.
Works
His works include:
Lawson also edited in 1844 the first two volumes of Robert Keith's History of the Affairs of Church and State in Scotland for the Spottiswoode Society, and wrote the letterpress for Clarkson Stanfield and James Duffield Harding's Scotland Delineated, Edinburgh, 1847–54.
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