Ray Lawson
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Raymond Lawson, OBE (August 30, 1886-1980), served as the 17th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1946 to 1952.
Born in 1886 in London, Ontario, the son of Frank Edgar Lawson, a reporter, and Lorena Hodgins, a former teacher, he became head of a lithographic firm in Toronto and a company director. Lawson served as Lieutenant Governor from 1946 to 1952. Lawson later served as Canadian Consul-General in New York from 1953 to 1955.
From 1948 to 1956, he was the Chancellor of University of King's College.
In 1956, he established the Lawson Foundation, with assets of two million dollars. The Foundation has since donated over fifty million dollars to charities across Canada.
In 1909 he married Helen Newton. They had five children. He died in 1980.
| Preceded by: Albert Edward Matthews | Lieutenant Governor of Ontario 1946–1952 | Succeeded by: Louis Orville Breithaupt |
| Image:Flag of the Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario.svg | Lieutenant-Governors of Ontario | Image:Flag of Ontario.svg | |
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| Post-Confederation (1867-present)
Stisted | Howland | Crawford | D.A. Macdonald | J.B. Robinson | Campbell | Kirkpatrick | Gzowski | Mowat | Clark | Gibson | Hendrie | Clarke | Cockshutt | Ross | Mulock | H.A. Bruce | Matthews | Lawson | Breithaupt | MacKay | Rowe | W.R. Macdonald | McGibbon | Aird | Alexander | Jackman | Weston | Bartleman Canada West (1841-1866) Clitherow | Jackson | Bagot | Metcalfe | Cathcart | J. Bruce | E.W. Head | Monck Upper Canada (1791-1841) Simcoe | Russell | Hunter | Grant | Gore | Brock | Sheaffe | de Rottenburg | Drummond | Murray | F.P. Robinson | Smith | Maitland | Colborne | F.B. Head | Arthur | Thomson | |||
