George Lawson (Scottish minister)
The Reverend George Lawson | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 13 March 1749 |
| Died | 21 February 1820 (aged 70) |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Denomination | |
| Occupation | Minister |
George Lawson D.D. (1749–1820) was a Scottish minister of the Secession Church, known as a biblical scholar. Thomas Carlyle, in an 1870 letter to Lawson's biographer John Macfarlane, called him "a most superlative steel-grey Scottish peasant (and Scottish Socrates of the period)".