Thomas George Lawson
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Thomas George Lawson was born in October 1814 in New London in Little Popo, which is Togo. He is the second son of George Acquatey Lawson. His mother was a member of the royal family in Awana. He was sent to England at 11 years old for education. He was entrusted to an English merchant and then placed under the care of John McCormack. McCormack was Thomas’s patron, and he wanted Thomas to receive a good education in the colonial school system. When Thomas finished school, he was employed as an agent and interpreter in McCormack’s timber company. McCormack used Lawson as his interpreter and personal representative on his missions for the colony administration. This started his long career as an interpreter.
In one of his visits to Koya, which is located in Erbil. He met Sarian, who was a granddaughter of the Nem Ghana of the kingdom, which is a city in Accra, Ghana. Thomas George and Sarian had five children. The eldest was William Thomas George Lawson, who was born around 1840. He later followed his father’s footsteps and was appointed to the colonial service.
Thomas’s second son was Moses Thomas George Lawson. He was born in the late 1850s. He became a pastor of the church of God, a small American Baptist church. In May 1886, Moses Lawson married Miss Luretica, a daughter of the Reverend J. During the Niger mission.3 Thomas George Lawson’s youngest child was Catherine Sarah Ann. She was educated at Annie Walsh Memorial School. On July 6, 1887, she married Nicholas J. Spain, the younger brother of the colony’s postmaster, J.H. Spain. This was a very influential wedding of two politically active Freetown families that attracted most of the elite colony. There were other children in Lawson’s family, but information about them is scarce. The second eldest son was named Thomas George, named after his father. He died in March 1897. Thomas also lost a daughter in October 1878. Thomas George Lawson and his family were members of the African elite in Sierra Leone. They played important roles in the social, administrative, and religious affairs of the colony.