LAWRENCE, John Laird Mair Lawrence, 1 Baron (6 son of lieut.-col. Alexander Wm. Lawrence 1764–1835). b. Richmond, Yorkshire 4 March 1811; assist. magistrate and collector at Delhi 1831–35; magistrate and collector of Paniput and Delhi 1844–46; administrator of Trans-Sutlej province 1 March 1846; member of board of administration of Punjaub 1849 and chief commissioner Feb. 1853; K.C.B. 5 Feb. 1856, G.C.B. civil 11 Nov. 1857; kept the Punjaub in security during the mutiny and sent great assistance to the army at Delhi, gave up the administration 28 Feb. 1859; one of the chief men in the preservation of India during the mutiny; received freedom of city of London 3 June 1859; cr. baronet 3 Aug. 1858; granted annuity of £2000 by H.E.I.Co. 25 Aug. 1858; member of council of India 21 Sep. 1858 and took his seat 11 April 1859; P.C. 13 May 1859; D.C.L. Oxf. 1859; D.C.L. Camb. 1859; refused governorship of Bombay 1860; G.C.S.I. 25 June 1861, invested 1 Nov. 1861; governor general of India 5 Dec. 1863, landed in India 12 Jany. 1864, resigned 12 Jany. 1869; held a great durbar at Lahore, Oct. 1864; created baron Lawrence of the Punjaub and of Grately, Northampton 4 April 1869; member of London school board, Chelsea division, Nov. 1870 to 26 Nov. 1873, chairman Dec. 1870 to 26 Nov. 1873; much opposed to the Afghan war of 1878–79. d. 23 Queen’s gate gardens, Kensington 26 June 1879. bur. in nave of Westminster abbey 5 July; statues of him have been erected in Calcutta and in Waterloo place, London. R. B. Smith’s Life of Lord Lawrence 2 vols. (1883), 2 portraits; G. B. Malleson’s Recollections of an Indian official (1872) 1–218; H. A. Page’s Leaders of men (1880) 367–98; Nolan’s Illust. Hist. of British empire in India, iii 40 (1860), portrait; I.L.N. xxxiii 156, 162 (1858), portrait; Graphic, xx 29 (1879), portrait.
LAWRENCE, Martha (dau. of John Cripps of Upton house, Tetbury). Said to have been b. Bow lane, Cheapside, London 9 Aug. 1758; bapt. St. Mary, Aldermanbury 15 Aug. 1758; (m. at Streatham 12 Nov. 1783 John Lawrence). She d. Richmond, Surrey 17 Feb. 1862 aged 103 years and 6 months. bur. Ham common, Surrey. W. J. Thoms’ Human longevity (1879) 266–68.
LAWRENCE, William (son of Thomas Lawrence of St. Agnes, Cornwall). b. St. Agnes 4 Feb. 1789; a builder at Pitfield wharf, Commercial road, Lambeth, 30 Bread st. Cheapside and 21 Pitfield st. Hoxton 1823 to death; member of common council of City of London before 1837, alderman of Bread st. ward 1848 to death, sheriff 1849–50; chairman of board of directors of Legal and Commercial fire and life assurance company; comr. of Tower Hamlets commission of sewers and of Holborn and Finsbury commission of sewers; a Unitarian and a great reformer. d. 94 Westbourne terrace, London 25 Nov. 1855.
LAWRENCE, Sir William, 1 Baronet (brother of Charles Lawrence 1794–1881). b. Cirencester 16 July 1783; apprenticed to John Abernethy the surgeon 1799, and his demonstrator at St. Bartholomew’s hosp. 1802–14, assistant surgeon there March 1813, surgeon 19 May 1824 to 1865, lecturer on surgery 1829–62; F.R.S. 11 Nov. 1813; surgeon to London infirmary for diseases of the eye 1814; surgeon to Bridewell and Bethlehem hospitals 1815; M.R.C.S. 1805, professor of anatomy and surgery 1815, member of council 1828, Hunterian orator 1834 and 1846, examiner 1840–67, pres. 1846 and 1855; surgeon extraordinary to the Queen 1837–58, serjeant surgeon 24 March 1858 to death; member of general medical council 1858–63; created baronet 8 April 1867; author of A treatise on ruptures 1810, 3 ed. 1816, 5 ed. 1838; A short system of comparative anatomy translated from the German 1807, 2 ed. 1827; An introduction to comparative anatomy and physiology 1816; Lectures on physiology, zoology and the natural history of man 1819, 9 ed. 1848; Lectures on surgery at St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1830; A treatise on the venereal diseases of the eye 1830; A treatise on the diseases of the eye 1833, 2 ed. 1841; The Hunterian orations 2 vols. 1834 and 1846. d. 18 Whitehall place, London 5 July 1867, portrait in committee room of St. Bartholomew’s hospital, and bust in College of Surgeons. Memoir by Sir W. S. Savory in St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Reports for 1868 pp. 1–18; Traits of character. By A Contemporary, i 145–66 (1860); Proc. of Royal Soc. xvi 25–30 (1868); Medical Circular, iv 191–3, 209–10, 227–9 (1854), portrait; W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery, ii 29, portrait; T. J. Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery, ii (1840), portrait.
Note.—He married 14 Aug. 1828 Louisa younger dau. of James Senior of Broughton house, Aylesbury, Bucks. At Drayton green until 1840 and afterwards at Ealing park, she was well known for her devotion to horticulture. The queen and Prince Albert sometimes visited the gardens at Ealing, where she at one time received Sir Robert Peel and all the ministers at a fête given in their honour. She d. Ealing park 14 Aug. 1855.
LAWRENCE, William Hudson. b. 21 Jany. 1793; 2 lieut. R.A. 28 April 1810, captain 2 Feb. 1832, retired on half pay 31 July 1840; held several government appointments at Corfu. d. Bath 13 March 1884, probably oldest officer in the R.A.
LAWRENSON, John (son of major Lawrenson). b. Ireland 1801; cornet 13 light dragoons 12 Nov. 1818; lieut. 4 dragoon guards 1822; capt. 17 lancers 1827, major 31 Dec. 1839; lieut.-col. 13 light dragoons 27 June 1845 to 23 June 1848; lieut.-col. 17 lancers 18 April 1851, on h.p. 30 Sep. 1856; brigadier general in Crimea 30 July 1855 to 2 July 1856; inspector general of cavalry at head quarters of army 1860–65; col. of 8 hussars 22 Feb. 1865, of 13 hussars 10 Dec. 1868 to death; general 2 Nov. 1875; hunted with the Atherstone hounds 1847–8, afterwards with the Pytchley, then at Brixworth; rode in military steeple chases. d. Alexandra hotel, Hyde park corner, London 30 Oct. 1883. Baily’s Mag. xli 367–9, 429 (1883).
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.