BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Edward Godfrey Lawson was born in Buffalo, N.Y. on October 29, 1884. He attended Cornell
University, receiving a B.S. in 1913 and a Master of Landscape Design in 1914. Awarded
the "Prix de Rome" in Landscape Architecture in 1915, he studied at the American Academy
in Rome, and was elected a fellow of the American Academy in 1920. During World War I,
he served in the Italian Red Cross, from 1917 to 1919. From 1920 to 1922, Lawson planned
military cemeteries in France, England, and Belgium for the U.S. Graves Registration
Service, Paris. He returned to the United States, and was appointed assistant professor
of landscape architecture at Cornell in 1922, where he taught until ca.1940. He worked
for the House of Herbs, the first center of herb culture in the United States, until his
retirement in 1964. On January 4, 1968, Lawson died at Winter Park, Florida.
