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RARE “1st Baron Lawson\" John James Lawson Hand Written Note Dated 1952 COA:
$299.99

"1st Baron Lawson" John James Lawson Hand Written Note Dated 1952. This item is certified authentic by JG Autographs and comes

with their Certificate of Authenticity.

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John James Lawson, 1st Baron Lawson, PC (16

October 1881 – 3 August 1965) was a British trade unionist and later Member of Parliament in County Durham, he

served in the governments of Ramsay MacDonald and Clement Attlee. In 1950 he was ennobled as Baron Lawson,

of Beamish in the County of Durham, and is sometimes referred to as Lord

Lawson of Beamish. Lawson was born in the port town of Whitehaven, Cumberland, and grew up in the nearby village of Kells. His father John Lawson was a sailor and miner who had

begun working in a colliery by the age of nine, sailed round the world by

eleven, and later served in the Royal Naval Reserve. His

mother, Lisbeth Savage, was a strict disciplinarian. Both parents were

illiterate and the family lived in extremes of poverty common at the time. At

the age of three, Lawson was sent to the local National

School, Glass House School. Here, he learned to read, developing an

avid interest in popular fiction as a boy, and moving on to literary fiction

and poetry in later years. When he was six his family moved to the village

of Flimby, near the owns  Maryport and Workington. The family now included ten children: five boys

and five girls. Two of his elder brothers worked with his father at the local

colliery and the family was no longer on the breadline. A year later, they

moved to County Durham, where the

working members were employed at Boldon Colliery. The family joined the Co-operative Society, and were committed trade unionists,

active in the Durham miners' strike of 1892. Outside of school, Jack Lawson's

time was consumed with chores and he often looked after his youngest brother,

Will, born in 1890.Lawson eagerly began work in the colliery the day after he

turned twelve. He started as a trapper, opening and shutting doors for the

drivers, working a ten-hour day. He was paid ten pence per day, and his life

greatly improved – he was treated as an adult now. After a few months he became

a driver, with his own pony. After a couple more years, he began off-hand work,

braking inclines and attending to the signalling bells. He began attending

union meetings, including the annual Durham Miners' Gala, where

in later years he met the likes of Will Crooks, Ellen Wilkinson, Ernest Bevin and George Lansbury. At eighteen he became a putter and began

speaking and working for the union. With five members of the family now working

at the colliery, the Lawsons had a higher status and moved into a house closer

to the pit, with a front room. Throughout this period he gambled frequently and

read a lot: Eventually, reading won over gambling. He had read nothing of

economics or politics yet, but had developed a strong sense of injustice,

firmly believing that manual workers were under-paid and under-valued. These

ideas generally seemed strange to his colleagues and family and he kept them to

himself. He joined the Methodist Society, and found his

ideas more accepted there. Through reading the Labour Leaderand The Clarion, Lawson realised he was a socialist. At the

age of 21 he met Isabella Graham Scott, a domestic servant from Sunderland who was

staying with friends at Boldon.[1] They were married in February 1906.

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