John Lawson

Life
1712-1759, b. Omagh [var.Magherafelt], Co. Tyrone, son of Church of Ireland curate; ed. TCD, BA 1731l MA, 1734; senior fellow and first librarian, 1743; DD 1745; first Erasmus Smith lecturer on oratory and history, 1753; his Lectures Concerning Oratory (Faulkner 1758); selected sermons, 1764; preched at inauguration of Rotunda Hospital. DNB.

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Criticism
W. B. Stanford, Ireland and the Classical Tradition (1984), pp. 210-211, Bibl,

E.N. Claussen, and KR Wallace, Lectures Concerning Oratory by John Lawson (Carbondale/London/ Amsterdam 1972).

See John V. Luce, review of E. Neal Claussen and Karl R Wallace, eds., Lectures Concerning Oratory by John Lawson [Landmarks in Rhetoric and Public Address] (S. Illinois UP 1972), pp.liii, 457, in Hermathena, CXVII (Summer 1974), p.105.

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Notes
Dictionary of National Biography names Oratory (1758, eds. 1759 & 1760), to which is appended "Irene, carmen historicum ad vicecomitem Boyle", poem, rev. edn. with a translation by William Dunkin (Dublin 1760); also a selection from Sermons (1764), being Occasional Sermons writyen by the late Eminent Divine (1765, 2nd edn. 1776); appended to which a Latin oration at the funerla of Richard Baldwin, 4 Oct. 1758. Bibl. Ryan’s Irish Worthies; Cotton’s Fasti Eccl. Hibern., ii, 286; Taylor, Dublin University, &c.

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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)