IGI Record Richard LAWSON Sex: M Event(s): Christening: 4 Oct 1723 Kirkurd, Peebles, Scotland Parents: Father: John Laird Cairnmuire Baron LAWSON Mother: Elizabeth SEMPIL Source Information: Batch number: Dates Source Call No. Type Printout Call No. Type C117642 1705-1707 1067918 Film 6901632 Film C117642 1718-1767 1067918 Film NONE Richard LAWSON of Cairnmuir, Netherurd etc. Lieutenant in Price's Regiment. (d.s.p. 1745) "Richard, the eldest, was a "worthy young man," entered the army in 1744, and was a lieutenant in General Price's regiment which was bought over from Flanders in October, 1745, to cope with the Jacobites. After a fatiguing march, through deep snow from Newcastle to Edinburgh he fell sick of an "epidemical fever", and died on 6th December the same year." - History of Peeblesshire. Pg 152