Mary Lawson (actress)

Mary Elizabeth Lawson was a stage and film actress during the 1920s and 1930s. In addition to her performances on stage and screen, Lawson was known for her romantic affairs, including with tennis player Fred Perry and her future husband, the married son of the Dame of Sark. Lawson and her husband died in the Second World War during a German bombing raid on Liverpool.

Mary Lawson was born in Darlington, County Durham, England onAugust 1910. She grew up in a humble terraced house on 58 Pease Street on the Freeholders Estate in Darlington and attended Dodmire School. The Lawsons were a workingclass family that had relocated from Gateshead to Darlington several years before Marys birth. Lawsons father, Thomas Ed Lawson , was an assistant fitter for the North Eastern Railway Company, while her mother, Jane Hood Lawson , died when Mary was only three. As a result, Mary was largely raised by her elder sister Dorothy . Mary also had two brothers John and Francis James

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