Sir Hilton Lawson, 4th Baronet of Brayton (1895–1959) was the son of Mordaunt Lawson, third son of Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 2nd Baronet, of Isell

Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 2nd Baronet, of Isell

Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 2nd Baronet was an English politician.He was the son of William Lawson and inherited his title on the death in 1688 of his grandfather Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 1st Baronet, of Isell....

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Hilton Lawson was educated at Repton School

Repton School

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 and later the Royal Military College. He served throughout the World War I

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 in the Royal Fusiliers where he attained the rank of Major

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. In 1939 he rejoined the army, went to France

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 with the British Expeditionary Force

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, taken prisoner at Dunkirk and did not return until 1945. He succeeded his uncle Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 3rd Baronet, of Isell

Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 3rd Baronet, of Isell

Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 3rd Baronet of Isell FRS , was a British politician. He was educated Queen's College, Oxford, graduating in 1713; and was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1715. He was Groom of the Bedchamber to George I from 1720 to 1725; and was elected as Fellow of the Royal Society in 1718...

 in 1937 and afterwards took up residence at Isel Hall.

He was High Sheriff of Cumberland

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 in 1952. He was a keen sportsman, especially outdoor pursuits. He was chairman of the Cumberland Foxhound

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s under successive Masters and the chairman of the committee responsible for reviving the Cumberland Point-to-point

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 steeplechasing at Moota, Cockermouth

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, 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

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 family tradition and supported the Conservative Party

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, he was the principal nominee of Helen Fox in the 1950 election for the Workington (UK Parliament constituency)

Workington (UK Parliament constituency)

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Hilton, who was unmarried, died at Isel on 12 January 1959, and the baronetcy expired with him.