William Lawson (co-operator)
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William Lawson was an English agriculturalist and pioneer co-operator. Lawson owned an experimental farm in Cumberland between the years 1862 and 1872.
The cooperative store at Blennerhasset which William Lawson established
The sign over the doorway of the former Blennerhasset post office
Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 1st Baronet, of Brayton, was an English landowner, businessman and investor in the new industrial age. He was of the Lawson baronets.
William Lawson (co-operator)
…Together with other members of his family, he received his education at home, where he later declared: "I learned as little as possible." His parents, Sir Wilfrid and Caroline Lawson, he remarked, "were more anxious that their children should be happy and good than that they should be learned and great." However…
Sir Wilfrid Lawson 1st Baronet of Brayton
Political Song relating to the 1827 Carlisle Election
The Whisky Pond at Brayton Hall