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{{Short description|British legal scholar}}
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'''Frederick Henry Lawson''', [[Fellow of the British Academy|FBA]] (14 July 1897 – 15 May 1983), published as '''F. H. Lawson''', was a British legal scholar.<ref name=":0">{{Cite ODNB|id=31340|title=Lawson, Frederick Henry [Harry]}}</ref> He was [[Linklaters Professor of Comparative Law|Professor of Comparative Law]] at the [[University of Oxford]] from 1948 to 1964.
==Biography==
Lawson was born in [[Leeds]], the son of a merchant. He was educated at [[Leeds Grammar School]] and [[The Queen's College, Oxford]], where he was Hastings [[Exhibition (scholarship)|Exhibitioner]] in Classics. From 1916 to 1918 he served in an anti-aircraft regiment. After the war, he read Modern History instead, taking a [[British undergraduate degree classification|First]] in 1921. The following year he took another First in Jurisprudence, and was [[Call to the bar|called to the bar]] by [[Gray's Inn]] in 1923.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="WWW" />
In 1925 he was elected a [[Junior Research Fellow]] at [[Merton College, Oxford]].<ref name="MCreg">{{cite book|editor1-last=Levens|editor1-first=R.G.C.|title=Merton College Register 1900–1964|date=1964|publisher=Basil Blackwell|location=Oxford|page=172}}</ref> He was appointed University Lecturer in Byzantine Law in 1929, elected an Official Fellow and Tutor in Law at Merton in 1930, and appointed [[All Souls College, Oxford|All Souls]] [[Reader (academic rank)|Reader]] in Roman Law in 1931. Between 1943 and 1945 he was a temporary Principal in the [[Ministry of Supply]]. In 1947 he became an Oxford [[Doctor of Civil Law|DCL]]. In 1948 he became the first [[Linklaters Professor of Comparative Law|Professor of Comparative Law]], and moved from Merton to [[Brasenose College, Oxford]]. He retired from Oxford in 1964. In retirement he taught at [[Lancaster University]].<ref name=":0" />
==Honours==
Lawson received honorary doctorates from [[Catholic University of Leuven (1835–1968)|Louvain]], [[University of Paris|Paris]], [[Ghent University|Ghent]], [[Goethe University Frankfurt|Frankfurt]], [[University of Glasgow|Glasgow]] and [[Lancaster University|Lancaster]].<ref name=":0" /> He was elected a [[Fellow of the British Academy]] (FBA) in 1956.<ref name="PBA">{{cite journal |last1=Nicholas |first1=Barry |authorlink1=Barry Nicholas |title=Frederick Henry Lawson 1897-1983 |journal=[[Proceedings of the British Academy]] |date=1991 |volume=76 |url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/sites/default/files/76p473.pdf |access-date=19 October 2018 }}</ref>
==Personal life==
In 1933, Lawson married Elspeth Webster. Together they had four children; three daughters and a son. After his retirement from Oxford, he moved to Eden Park Road, [[Lancaster, Lancashire]] (when he was teaching at [[Lancaster University]]).<ref name="WWW">{{cite web |title=Lawson, Frederick Henry |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-166240 |website=[[Who Was Who]] |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=19 October 2018 |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U166240 |date=1 December 2007|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1 }}</ref>
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