LAWRANCE, EDWARD ELEAZAR. _b._ Ipswich 1784; solicitor at
Ipswich 1808 to death; clerk to borough magistrates at Ipswich
1836; clerk to magistrates of Samford petty sessions 40 years;
coroner for the liberty of the duke of Norfolk 40 years; oldest
attorney on rolls except one who was admitted in 1805; member
British Archæol. Assoc. 1859. _d._ 170 Woodbridge road, Ipswich
20 May 1866. _Journal of British Archæol Assoc. xxiii_ 306
(1867).
LAWRANCE, MISS HANNAH. _b._ 1795; a contributor to the Athenæum;
author of Historical memoirs of the Queens of England 2 vols.
1838–40; The history of woman in England and her influence on
society and literature, Vol. i. 1843, no more published. _d._
Nov. 1875.
LAWRENCE, SIR ALEXANDER HUTCHINSON, 1 Baronet (elder son of
Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence 1806–57). _b._ Allahabad 6 Sep.
1838; served in Bengal civil service 1857 to death; created
baronet for his father’s services in India 10 Aug. 1858; assist.
commissioner in the Punjaub to death; killed accidentally
between Torahon and Tarunda about 120 miles from Simla, northern
India 27 Aug. 1864. _bur._ at Simla 29 Aug.
LAWRENCE, ALEXANDER WILLIAM. _b._ 1 July 1803; entered Madras
army 1818; major 7 Madras light cavalry 16 March 1840,
lieut.-col. 23 May 1846 to 1848, 1855–6 and 1857–8; lieut.-col.
6 Madras light cavalry 1848–54; lieut.-col. 4 Madras light
cavalry 1854–5; lieut.-col. 2 Madras light cavalry 1856–7, col.
17 May 1859 to death; M.G. 20 July 1858. _d._ Biarritz, France
21 Feb. 1868.
LAWRENCE, SIR ARTHUR JOHNSTONE (3 son of Charles Lawrence of
Fairfield, Jamaica). _b._ Gatacre, Salop 14 July 1809; ed. at
Eton; ensign 23 foot 4 April 1827; lieut. rifle brigade 17
March 1830, lieut.-col. 1 Aug. 1847, placed on h.p. 24 July
1856; commanded 2nd brigade of second division in the Crimea 25
Dec. 1855 to 10 June 1856; col. of 58 foot 6 Jany. 1870 to 13
April 1884; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 14 July
1879; col. commandant of first battalion of rifle brigade 13
April 1884 to death; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 2 June 1869. _d._
Fox-hills near Chertsey 25 Jany. 1892. _Daily Graphic 27 Jany.
1892 p._ 9 _col._ 4, _portrait_.
LAWRENCE, CHARLES (son of Wm. Lawrence of Cirencester, Gloucs.,
surgeon 1753–1837). _b._ 21 March 1794; took a leading part in
founding Royal agricultural college at Cirencester 1842, owner
of a farm adjoining that of the college where he conducted
experiments which led to introduction of numerous improvements
in agricultural machinery; author of Practical directions
for the cultivation of cottage gardens 1831; A letter on
agricultural education 1851; A handy book for young farmers
1859; To my labourers, on the economy of food 1860, and of
several papers in Transactions of Royal Agricultural Society.
_d._ The Querns, Cirencester 5 July 1881.
LAWRENCE, ELIAS. Midshipman R.N. 1789–93; 2 lieut. R.M. 8 May
1793, col. commandant 10 July 1837, retired on full pay 10
July 1844; general 20 June 1855; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831. _d._ 8 St.
Michael’s terrace, Devonport 25 March 1856.
LAWRENCE, FREDERICK (eld. son of John Lawrence of Bisham,
Berkshire, farmer). _b._ Bisham 1821; employed by Simpkin and
Marshall, publishers, London; entered printed book department
of British Museum, Dec. 1846, helped to compile general
catalogue to May 1849; barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1849; chairman of
the Garibaldian committee 1864; wrote a series of articles on
literary impostures and on eminent English authors in Sharpe’s
London Journal; edited at Guildford in 1841 The Iris, a journal
of literature and science, 3 numbers; edited The Lawyer’s
Companion 5 vols. 1864–8; author of The common law procedure
act, 1852 with an introduction 1852; The life of Henry Fielding
1855; Culverwell _v._ Sidebottom. A letter to the attorney
general. By a Barrister 1857, 2 ed. 1859. _d._ suddenly at his
chambers, 1 Essex court, Temple, London 25 Oct. 1867. _Handbook
of fictitious names. By Olphar Hamst_ [_Ralph Thomas_] (1868) 2,
205; _Cowtan’s Memories of the British Museum_ (1872) 363–4.
LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALFRED (eld. son of rev. Alfred Charnley
Lawrence _d._ 1867). _b._ Braxted rectory, Essex 25 March 1827;
ed. at Rugby 1841–5 and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1850; barrister
I.T. 17 Nov. 1852; author of Guy Livingstone, or Thorough 1857
anon., 6 ed. 1867, which describes his own boyhood and college
life; Sword and Gown 1859, 5 ed. 1888; Barren Honour 2 vols.
1862; Border and Bastile 1863, 3 ed. 1864; A bundle of ballads
1864; Maurice Dering or the quadrilateral 1864, 2 ed. 1869; Sans
Merci, or Kestrels and falcons 3 vols. 1866, 3 ed. 1869, and 5
other books all stated to be by the author of Guy Livingstone.
_d._ 134 George st. Edinburgh 24 Sep. 1876. _Edinburgh Review_,
_cviii_ 532–40 (1858); _Spectator 28 Oct. 1876 pp._ 1345–7.
NOTE.--His book Border and Bastile 1863 is a record of his journey to
the United States of America in January 1863 with the intention of
joining as a volunteer the confederate army under general Stonewall
Jackson; before he got near the confederate lines he was taken prisoner
and shut up in a guard-house, whence after correspondence with Lord
Lyons the British ambassador at Washington he was liberated on the
condition of his immediate return to England.
LAWRENCE, SIR GEORGE ST. PATRICK (3 son of lieut.-col. Alexander
Lawrence 1764–1835). _b._ Trincomalee, Ceylon 17 March 1804;
cornet 2 Bengal light cavalry 15 Jany. 1822, adjutant 1825–34,
major 26 Feb. 1860 to 18 Feb. 1861; military sec. to sir W. H.
Macnaghten the envoy of Afghanistan, Sep. 1839 to 23 Dec. 1841
when Macnaghten was murdered; assistant political agent in the
Peshawur district of the Punjaub, Oct. 1846; taken prisoner by
the Sikhs 25 Oct. 1846; deputy comr. of Peshawur 7 June 1849;
political agent in Mewar 24 July 1850 to 13 March 1857; resident
in the Rajputana states 13 March 1857 to Dec. 1864; brigadier
general of all the forces in Rajputana during the mutiny 1857;
M.G. 25 May 1861, retired on full pay 29 Oct. 1866; hon. L.G.
11 Jany. 1867; granted good service pension of £100 a year 11
Jany. 1865; C.B. 18 May 1860; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1866; author
of Reminiscences of forty-three years in India, edited by W.
Edwardes 1874. _d._ 20 Kensington park gardens, London 16 Nov.