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. 1884. Edwardes and Merivale’s Life of Sir Henry Lawrence, vol. i (1872); Golden Hours (1869) 314–29, 397–409, 457–69, portrait; I.L.N. 29 Nov. 1884 pp. 533, 542, portrait.
LAWRENCE, Henry. b. 1790; entered Bengal army 1809; ensign 19 Bengal N.I. 1 Nov. 1811, lieut. 16 Dec. 1814; lieut. 67 N.I. 1823, major 3 Aug. 1837 to 3 Nov. 1843; lieut.-col. of 35 N.I. 3 Nov. 1843 to 1846, of 2nd European regiment 1846–8, of 73 N.I 1848–50, of 44 N.I. 1850 to 1851, of 24 N.I. 1851–2, of 58 N.I. 1852 to 15 April 1854; commanded Lahore field force 29 March 1854 to 1855 and Lahore district or station 1855 to 8 Aug. 1856; col. of 72 N.I. 15 April 1854, placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877; general 23 May 1874. d. 1 Camden gardens, Chislehurst road, Richmond hill, Surrey 23 Nov. 1887.
LAWRENCE, Sir Henry Montgomery (4 son of lieut.-col. Alexander W. Lawrence 1764–1835). b. Mattura, Ceylon 28 June 1806; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 10 May 1822, lieut.-col. 18 May 1856 to death; a revenue surveyor in north west province 1833–39; political agent in charge of Ferozepore 1839; commander of Sikh contingent in the entry into Cabul 16 Sep. 1842; British resident at Nepaul 1 Dec. 1843, founded the Lawrence asylum for soldiers’ children 1844; governor general’s agent for foreign relations and the affairs of the Punjaub 3 Jany. 1846 and for the affairs of the North West frontier 1 April 1846; C.B. 27 June 1846, K.C.B. 28 April 1848; present at Sobraon and at the occupation of Lahore; British resident at Lahore 8 Jany. 1847 to Oct. 1847 and practically ruler of the Punjaub; removed the maharanee from Lahore and separated her from Dhuleep Singh; present at siege of Moultan and at Chillianwallah; president of board of administration of Punjaub 14 April 1849 to 1853; governor general’s agent in Ajmeer, Rajputana 9 Feb. 1853; colonel 20 June 1854; hon. A.D.C. to queen 20 June 1854; chief comr. and agent to governor general in Oude 14 March 1857; brigadier general 19 May 1857 with command of all the troops in Oudh; on breaking out of mutiny fortified Lucknow; author of Some passages in the life of an adventurer in the Punjaub, anon. 1842; Adventures of an officer in the service of Runjeet Singh 2 vols. 1845; Essays, military and political 1859; Essays on the Indian army and Oude 1859; struck by a shell in the residency at Lucknow 2 July 1857 and d. in Dr. Fayrer’s house 4 July. Edwardes and Merivale’s Life of Sir H. Lawrence 2 vols. (1872); J. W. Kaye’s Lives of Indian officers, ii 275–352 (1867); L. E. R. Rees’ Personal narrative of siege of Lucknow (1858), portrait.
LAWRENCE, Rev. Hezekiah. b. 1800; missionary of London Jews society more than 50 years. d. Danzig 10 June 1884.