LAWRIE, ALEXANDER. _b._ Edinburgh 26 June 1818; blind from early
infancy; an excellent pianist, composer and virtuoso of music;
organist of St. James’s episcopal church, Edinb. many years,
then of rev. Mr. Kirk’s ch. Brighton st. Edinb.; published many
pieces for the pianoforte; wrote some good hymn tunes. _d._
Edinburgh, Dec. 1880.
LAWRIE, JAMES ADAIR (son of rev. Archibald Lawrie of Loudoun,
friend of Robert Burns the poet). _b._ 1801 or 1802; M.D.
Glasgow, L. and F.F.P.S. Glasgow; surgeon H.E.I.C.S. Bengal;
professor of surgery in Andersonian univ. Glasgow; professor
of surgery in Glasgow univ. 1850 to death; in practice at 18
Brandon place, Glasgow; edited with W. Weir The Glasgow Medical
Journal, vol. v. 1832; author of Essay on cholera founded on
observations of the disease in India and in Sunderland 1832.
_d._ Bridge of Allan 23 Nov. 1859. _Memoirs of one hundred
Glasgow men_ (1886) 171, _portrait_.
LAWRY, WALTER (son of Joseph Lawry _d._ 1832). _b._ Ruthern,
St. Gorran, Cornwall 3 Aug. 1793; Wesleyan minister in New
South Wales 1817–20, in Friendly Isles 1820–22, 1823–25, in Van
Diemen’s land 1822–23, in England 1825–43, in New Zealand and
Australia 1843 to death; general superintendent of Wesleyan
missions in New Zealand 1844–51; author of Friendly and
Feejee islands, a missionary visit 1850, 2 ed. 1850; A second
missionary visit to the Friendly islands 1851. _d._ Paramatta,
N.S.W. 30 March 1859. _Buller’s Forty years in New Zealand_
(1878) 314–20.
LAWSON, CECIL GORDON (5 son of Wm. Lawson, Scottish portrait
painter). _b._ Wellington, Shropshire 3 Dec. 1851; commenced
painting in oils at the age of four; sketched in the open air
at the age of 10, at the age of 14 was selling his sketches
to the dealers; made his first sketching tour in Kent, Surrey
and Sussex 1866; landscape painter; his pictures refused by
the Royal Academy 1866, exhibited 13 pictures at R.A. and 5 at
Suffolk st. 1869–80; first exhibited at New British Instit. Bond
st. 1868; Cheyne walk, Chelsea, exhibited at R.A. 1870; his
large picture painted at Wrotham in Kent, ‘The hop gardens of
England,’ was not accepted at the R.A. 1875, but in 1876 was
hung in a good position. _d._ 15 Cheyne walk, Chelsea 10 June