This fountain was erected in honour of Sir Wilfred Lawson and was inlaid with four bronze tablets.
Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 2nd Baronet, of Brayton (1829–1906), British Liberal Party politician and temperance leader
Sir | Sir Walter Scott | baronet | Baronet | Wilfrid Laurier University | Lawson | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Henry Lawson | Sir Robert Peel | Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond | Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex | Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster | Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer | 2nd United States Congress | Wilfrid | Wilfrid Laurier | Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet | Michigan's 2nd congressional district | Lawson (band) | 2nd | William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne | William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne | Sir Raylton Dixon | Sir Harold Hillier Gardens | Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 1st Baronet | Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland | Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet | George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham | Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet | Nigella Lawson |
In 2002 Sir Derek Bibby, 2nd baronet, and great-great-grandson of the founder and past chairman and president of the firm, was aged 80 and terminally ill with leukemia.
Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 1st Baronet, of Isell (c. 1610–1688), MP for Cumberland 1659 and 1660 and Cockermouth 1660-1679
On 4 September 1658, Thomas Wyberg Esq., of St Bees, Joseph Patrickson of Howe, and William Barwis of Paddigil signed a deed on behalf of their wives the three co-heiresses, transferring the Brayton Manorial Estates and other property valued at one thousand pounds to Sir Wilfrid Lawson of Isel.
In April 1705 Lawson’s widow petitioned the crown against this final bequest and in August the Treasury, following a report from the attorney-general that ‘the codicil containing the bequest is so worded that it carries a presumption with it that the testator was not in his senses when he dictated it’, awarded the £600 to Lawson’s widow.
Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 3rd Baronet, of Isell (1697–1737), MP for Boroughbridge 1718-1722 and Cockermouth
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Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 3rd Baronet, of Brayton (1862–1937), Liberal Party politician and MP