J. C. (John Cuthbert) Lawson

John Cuthbert Lawson was a British scholar and writer best known for Modern Greek Folklore and Ancient Greek Religion: A Study in Survivals, first published in 1910. Sources available here also identify him as a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and show that his work focused on Ancient Greece and its cultural traditions.

His writing stood out for connecting close study of classical texts with living folklore, especially in Greece. That approach gave his scholarship a distinctive character: learned, but drawn toward the ways old beliefs and stories continue in everyday custom.

Lawson also wrote The Litany of the Elves, published in 1919, which reflects the same fascination with folklore and imagination. I couldn’t confirm enough reliable biographical detail beyond his dates, academic affiliation, and main works to safely add more.