Modern English biography

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.