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The family surname was originally Wybergh. The politician's father was younger son of Thomas Wybergh of Clifton Hall, Westmoreland, whose family was settled there since the fourteenth century. Thomas Wybergh's wife Elizabeth was daughter of John Hartley of Whitehaven, and sister of Anne, wife of Sir Wilfrid Lawson, tenth and last baronet, of Isel Hall, Cockermouth, who died without issue on 14 June ; this Sir Wilfrid's property passed by his will to the eldest son of his wife's sister, another Thomas Wybergh, who assumed the surname of Lawson, and dying unmarried on 2 May was succeeded in his estates by his next brother, Wilfrid Wybergh, who also took the name of Lawson and was made a baronet on 30 Sept.

Young Lawson was brought up at home. His father, an advanced liberal, was devoted to the causes of temperance, peace, and free trade. He held dissenting opinions, and he chose as tutor for his boys a young man, J. Oswald Jackson, who had just left the dissenting college at Homerton, and was in after years a congregationalist minister.

The instruction was desultory, and Lawson declared in after life that he 'had never had any education,' and that Adam Smith 's ' Wealth of Nations ' was the book which taught him all he knew. He was, however, early initiated into the sports of hunting, shooting, and fishing, and was a capital shot and a hard rider.

Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 2nd Baronet (4 September – 1 July ) was an English temperance campaigner and radical, anti-imperialist Liberal Party politician.

In he bought the hounds which had belonged to John Peel [q. He took a keen interest in agriculture, woodcraft, and all rural pursuits. He was early made J. His father, whose political convictions he shared, wished him to enter parliament at the earliest opportunity. On 21 March Lawson contested in the liberal interest West Cumberland, which had always been represented by two tory members.

During the contest Lawson first gave proof of his faculty for public speaking, in which humour and sarcasm played a chief part. But he was at the bottom of the poll, with votes against recorded for the second tory. The new parliament was dissolved in , and on 31 May Lawson, standing for Carlisle with his uncle.