Miscellaneous documents
Reference: D/X 245 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: John James (Jack) Lawson, Baron Lawson of Beamish, and the Lawson family
Covering Dates: 1856-1965
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LORD LAWSON OF BEAMISH (Ref: D/X 245/1-8)Ref: D/X 245/1
Royal declaration allowing Lord Lawson to continue in office as Lord Lieutenant for a further period of two years after he attains the age of 75, 16 October 1957, Seal
(1 parchment)
Ref: D/X 245/2Lord Lawson's writs of summons to Parliament, 1951, 1955 and 1959
(3 parchments)
Ref: D/X 245/3Programme of ceremonial at the opening of Parliament, 1 November 1960
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 245/4Text of Lord Lawson's broadcast The Week in Westminster, 30 July 1943
(1 file)
Ref: D/X 245/5Newspaper cuttings relating to the career of Lord Lawson, 1945-1965
(1 bundle)
Ref: D/X 245/6Copy of the Koran presented to Lord Lawson on the Parliamentary Mission to China, 1948
(1 volume)
Ref: D/X 245/7Letters from George Lawson, in Australia to his wife, 1856-1857
(3 papers)
Ref: D/X 245/8The Walls End Miner or a Memoir of William Crister by James Everett, 4th Edition; n.d. (1st Edition 1835). Includes a signed print of Everett for 'my dear friend Reay i.e. 'Mr. John Reay of Carville, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne, a promoter of religion, sabbath schools and civil order' to whom the book is dedicated
(1 volume)
