Dictionary of National Biography, 1900, volume 32 (LAWSON, JOHN PARKER (d. 1852), historical and miscellaneous writer, was ordained a minister in the Episcopal Church of Scotland. He was for some time a chaplain in the army, but afterwards lived in Edinburgh, writing for the booksellers.) https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lawson,_John_Parker_(DNB00)
His life of George Wishart, 1827 (name not given)
MWA/NAIP files (usage: John Parker Lawson; John Lawson; J.P. Lawson; author of The life of George Wishart)