Career
However, the election was declared void on petition, and he was returned to the House of Commons at the resulting by-election, holding the seat until he was defeated again at the 1837 general election. He regained the seat at the 1841 general election, but that election was overturned on petition and he did not stand again. Wason married Euphemia McTier.
Their children included Cathcart Wason (1848–1921), a New Zealand settler and Member of Parliament who returned to Scotland and became Member of Parliament for Orkney and Shetland, and Eugene Wason (1846–1927), a lawyer and Liberal Member of Parliament. Peter Cathcart Wason was Eugene"s grandchild.