page_title: Sir Gilfrid Lawson, 6th Baronet
section_title: Later life and legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Sir Gilfrid Lawson, 6th Baronet / Later life and legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Isel Hall, Cumbria
context_page_description: Sir Gilfrid Lawson, 6th Baronet, of Brayton Hall, Cumbria, was an English lawyer and Tory politician who sat in the English House of Commons between 1701 and 1705 and in the British House of Commons from 1708 to 1734.
context_section_description: Lawson succeeded his cousin Sir Mordaunt Lawson, 5th Baronet to the baronetcy and to the Isel estate on 8 August  1743. He died unmarried on 23 August 1749 and the title passed to his brother Alfred.
  After Alfred's death in 1752, his eldest son Wilfrid received the title. Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 8th Baronet (1712–63) became Sheriff of Cumberland in 1756. In 1761, he entered Parliament for the Cumberland constituency after James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale who had been returned for that constituency, and for Westmorland, preferred to sit for the latter. Sir Wilfrid died in 1763, with no issue and the baronetcy passed to his brother Sir Gilfrid Lawson, 9th Baronet.
caption: Isel Hall in 1892
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