Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 1st Baronet, of Brayton
Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 1st Baronet, of Brayton( 5 October 1795 – 12 June 1867), was an English landowner, businessman and investor in the new industrial age.
He was of the Lawson baronets.
Hilton Lawson
Sir Hilton Lawson, 4th Baronet( 1895 – 1959) was the son of Mordaunt Lawson, third son of Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 2nd Baronet, of Brayton.
He was educated at Repton School and later the Royal Military College.
He served throughout World War I in the Royal Fusiliers where he attained the rank of Major.
In 1939 he rejoined the army, went to France with the British Expeditionary Force, taken prisoner at Dunkirk and did not return until 1945.
He succeeded his uncle Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 3rd Baronet, of Isell in 1937 and afterwards took up residence at Isel Hall.
In 1952, Lawson became the High Sheriff of Cumberland.
He was a keen sportsman, especially outdoor pursuits.
He was chairman of the Cumberland Foxhounds under successive Masters and the chairman of the committee responsible for reviving the Cumberland point- to- point steeplechasing at Moota, Cockermouth, where he officiated as judge.
As a keen angler, he was a member of the Derwent Board of Conservators, the body preceding the Cumberlan Rivers Board.
In politics he forsook the Liberal Party family tradition and supported the Conservative Party, he was the principal nominee of Helen Fox in the 1950 election for the Workington( UK Parliament constituency).
Hilton, who was unmarried, died at Isel on 12 January 1959, and the baronetcy expired with him.
Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 2nd Baronet, of Brayton
Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 2nd Baronet( 4 September 1829 – 1 July 1906) was an English temperance campaigner and radical, anti-imperialist Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1859 and 1906.
He was recognised as the leading humourist in the House of Commons.
Lawson was Member for Carlisle, 1859 – 65, 1868 – 85; Cockermouth, 1886–1900; Camborne, 1903 – 1906; and Cockermouth 1906.
He was the son of Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 1st Baronet, of Brayton, who changed his name from Wybergh, and Caroline Graham, daughter of Sir James Graham.
He was privately educated at home.
He was a founder member of both the National Liberal Club and the Reform League, a prominent member of the Peace Society, and the Society for the Suppression of the Opium Trade.
He was a director of the Maryport and Carlisle Railway and a Justice of the Peace for Cumberland.
He was always an enthusiast in the cause of temperance and in 1879 he became president of the United Kingdom Alliance.
He was, like his younger brother William, a forward thinking co-operator and agriculturalist.
Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 1st Baronet, of Isell
Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 1st Baronet, of Isel Hall, Cumberland( c. 1610–1688) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1679.
Wilfrid Lawson (MP for Cockermouth)
Wilfrid Lawson( ca. 1636 after 1679) of Brayton Hall, Cumberland was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1659 and 1660.
Lawson was the second son of Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 1st Baronet, of Isell and his wife Jane Musgrave, daughter of Sir Edward Musgrave, 1st Baronet of Hayton Castle In 1659, Lawson was elected Member of Parliament for Cockermouth in the Third Protectorate Parliament.
In 1660, he was re-elected MP for Cockermouth in the Convention Parliament.
In 1678 he was appointed High Sheriff of Cumberland Lawson's father conferred the estate of Brayton on him, so founding the Brayton line of Lawsons upon whom the baronetcy later descended in 1743 on the death of Sir Mordaunt Lawson, 5th Baronet of Isell.
Lawson died before his father.
He had married Sarah, daughter of William James of Washington, County Durham.
They had two sons, Gilfrid and Alfred.
Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 3rd Baronet, of Isell
Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 3rd Baronet of Isell FRS( 1697 – 13 July 1737) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1718 to 1737.
Lawson was the son and heir of Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 2nd Baronet, of Isell, Cumbria, and his wife Elizabeth Preston, daughter of George Preston of Holker, Lancashire.
He succeeded his father in 1704, inheriting the baronetcy and Isel Hall.
He matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford, in 1713, and was admitted to study law at the Inner Temple in 1715.
In 1717, Lawson stood for the Cockermouth constituency after Nicholas Lechmere accepted a ministerial position and accordingly resigned the seat.
However, the returning officer made a double return, returning both Lord Percy Seymour and Sir Wilfrid Lawson.
Both parties immediately petitioned against the result; Lord Percy, on the grounds that Lawson was a minor,( not having attained the age of 21), while Lawson based his petitioned on the grounds of bribery.
Although both petitions were withdrawn, Sir Wilfrid did admit the charge and consequently Lord Percy took the seat.
In 1718, Lawson became Member of Parliament for the Boroughbridge constituency.
He made his maiden speech on 11 November, in support of the Government on the Address, voting for the repeal of the Occasional Conformity and Schism Acts, but against the peerage bill.
In 1721, he figured in the report of the South Sea Company committee of the House of Commons as one of the Members who had accepted bribes from the Company, in his case £ 1,000 in stock.
Lawson was Groom of the Bedchamber to George I from 1720 to 1725 and was elected as Fellow of the Royal Society in 1718.
In 1722 Lawson was returned for Cockermouth, which he represented until his death.
He continued to speak in support of the Government until January 1724, when he supported an opposition motion for disbanding some additional troops taken on in 1723; in February 1725 he supported Pulteney ’s motion for referring the report on Lord Macclesfield to a select committee instead of proceeding to impeach him; in March 1726 he again supported Pulteney in opposing a vote of credit; and in January 1727 he moved for papers relating to the accession of Sweden to the treaty of Hanover, the motion being rejected without a division.
In the next Parliament Lawson became one of the leading opposition Whigs, speaking against the Government on a vote of credit in 1728 and the civil list arrears in 1729, when he led for the Opposition on the Address.
He again spoke first for them in January 1732 against the treaty of Seville, and in February 1733 on the army estimates.
In February 1733 he moved for papers relative to the Spanish depredations, and carried his motion without a division, notwithstanding serious criticism from the then Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole.
In 1736, he seconded an opposition motion for the repeal of the Test Act.
In 1737, he spoke in favour of an increase in the Prince of Wales ’s allowance.
Upon his death at Newcastle- upon- Tyne in 1737 Lawson gave the vicar of Isel church the tithes of Blindcrake, Sunderland, Isel Old- Park and Isel Gate in lieu of the tithes of Isel demesne.
He had married Elizabeth Lucy Mordaunt, daughter of the Hon. Harry Mordaunt MP and niece of the Earl of Peterborough, with whom he had two sons and two daughters.
He was succeeded in turn by his elder son, Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 4th Baronet( 1731 – 39) and his younger son Sir Mordaunt Lawson, 5th Baronet( 1735 – 43) both of whom died in childhood, thus ending the supremacy of the Isel Lawsons.
The eldest daughter Elizabeth, who died in 1759, also deserves an historical footnote.
She became a Maid of Honour to the Princess of Wales and although courted by General James Wolfe, hero of Quebec, she refused his hand of marriage.
As told by Joseph Pennell, writing in" Highways and Byways in the Lake District".
Stopping on his travels at Isel he recalls:
Stan Lay
Stanley Arthur Lay( 27 July 1906 – 12 May 2003) was a New Zealand javelin thrower who competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics, 1930 British Empire Games, 1938 British Empire Games, and 1950 British Empire Games.
In 1928, he finished seventh.
At the British Empire Games he won a gold medal in 1930 and a silver in 1938, placing sixth in 1950.
Lay's best throw of 67.89 m was achieved in London on 7 July 1928 prior to the 1928 Olympics.
Officials thought he had broken the world record, but they had overlooked Eino Penttilä's record throw of 69.88 the previous year.
Lay's throw remained the Commonwealth record for 26 years.
Lay was a signwriter at Stratford, and could not afford the time off to go to the 1934 British Empire Games in London.
At the 1950 Empire Games Lay took the oath on behalf of all competitors.
In the 1988 New Year Honours, Lay was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to sport.
Two years later he was inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame.
Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 2nd Baronet, of Isell
Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 2nd Baronet (31 October 1664 – November 1704) of Isel was an English politician.
Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 3rd Baronet, of Brayton
Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 3rd Baronet, of Brayton( 21 October 1862 – 28 August 1937) was an English Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1910 to 1916.
He was also a keen sportsman who excelled at cricket and steeplechasing.
Sir John Nicolson, 2nd Baronet
Sir John Nicolson, 2nd Baronet, of Lasswade was a member of the Parliament of Scotland.

Question: Does Stan Lay have the same nationality as Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 2Nd Baronet, Of Brayton?
Answer: no