John Parker Lawson
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John Parker Lawson was a clergyman of the Episcopal Church of Scotland and historian.

Life

Ordained a minister in the Episcopal Church of Scotland, he was for some time a chaplain in the British Army
British Army
The British Army is the land warfare branch of Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the United Kingdom. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdom of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army incorporated Regiments that had already existed in England...

. Later he lived in Edinburgh
Edinburgh
Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...

, writing for the booksellers.

Works

His works include:
  • ‘The Life of George Wishart of Pitarrow,’ Edinburgh, 1827.
  • ‘Life and Times of William Laud, … Archbishop of Canterbury,’ 2 vols., London, 1829.
  • ‘The History of Remarkable Conspiracies connected with English History during the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries,’ 2 vols., Edinburgh, 1829. This was issued in ‘Constable's Miscellany.’
  • ‘The Roman Catholic Church in Scotland,’ Edinburgh, 1836.
  • ‘Gazetteer of the Old and New Testaments, with Introductory Essay by William Fleming,’ 2 vols., Edinburgh, 1838.
  • ‘Historical Tales of the Wars of Scotland,’ 2 vols., Edinburgh, 1839.
  • ‘History of the Scottish Episcopal Church from the Revolution to the Present Time,’ Edinburgh, 1843.
  • ‘The Episcopal Church of Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution,’ Edinburgh, 1844. Online at archive.org.


Lawson also edited in 1844 the first two volumes of Robert Keith
Robert Keith (historian)
Robert Keith was a Scottish Episcopal bishop and historian.-Life:Born at Uras in Kincardineshire, Scotland, on 7 February 1681, he was the second son of Alexander Keith and Marjory Keith . He was educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen between 1695 and 1699; graduating with an A.M...

'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
James Duffield Harding
James Duffield Harding , English landscape painter, was the son of an artist, and took to the same vocation at an early age, although he had originally been destined for the law...

's Scotland Delineated, Edinburgh, 1847–54.
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