Lawrence, Edward Feurtado, brother of John Henry Lawrence (q.v.); b. Nov. 28, 1892; adm. as (non-resident) K.S. Sept. 27, 1906 (H); left July 1911; d. Feb. 14, 1913.
LAWRENCE, ---; b.; in school lists 1764, 1765, 1767.
LAWRANCE, HENRY, eldest son of Edward Lawrance, Barbados, West Indies, and Rebecca Skeete Briggs (IGI); b. (West Indies) 23 Sep 1863; adm. 24 Jun 1879 (H); left May 1882; Exeter Coll. Oxford, matr. 18 Oct 1882; BA 1888; MA 1889.
LAWLEY, SIR ROBERT, BART., only son of Sir Robert Lawley, Bart., and Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Sir Lambert Blackwell, Bart., MP; bap 22 Mar 1735/6; adm. Sep 1748 (Watts'); in school list 1752; Emmanuel Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 5 Apr 1753; succ. father as 5th baronet 28 Nov 1779; MP Warwickshire from 1780; of Canwell Priory, Staffs.; m. 11 Aug 1764 Jane, only dau. of Beilby Thompson, Escrick, Yorks.; d. 1 Mar 1793.
LAWLEY, GEORGE; b.; adm. (aged 11) Feb 1725/6; left 1726. [IGI has baptism at Kinlet, Shropshire, 11 Apr 1714, of a George Lawley, son of Benjamin Lawley & Anne].
LAWFORD, JOHN GRANT, second son of William Robinson Lawford, Leighton Buzzard, Beds., and Catherine Elizabeth Firth (IGI); b. 10 Feb 1811; adm. 18 Sep 1821 (Stelfox's); Wadham Coll. Oxford, matr. 1 Jul 1828; BA 1833; MA 1835; ordained priest (Lincoln) 15 Mar 1835; Master, Aylesbury GS 1835; Perpetual Curate of Heath and Reach, Beds., 15 Mar 1835-42, of Soulbury, Bucks., 11 Apr 1839-45; m. 1838 Phoebe, third dau. of W. Dawson, Turnham Green, Middlesex; d. at Brussels 23 Jun 1847.
LAWES, JOHN BENNET, only surviving son of Thomas Lawes, Hatton Garden, London, and Mary, dau. of Thomas Bennet, Cambridge, Esquire Bedell of Cambridge Univ.; b. 6 Jun 1768; adm. 14 Jun 1779; of Rothamsted House, Herts.; m. Aug 1812 Marianna, widow of David George Knox (qv), and dau, of John Sherman, Harpenden, Herts.; d. 25 Oct 1822.
LAW, WILLIAM JOHN, eldest son of Ewan Law MP, formerly EICS Bengal, and Henrietta Sarah, eldest dau. of William Markham (adm. 1733, qv); b. 6 Dec 1786; adm. 16 May 1794 (Clapham); in school lists 1795, 1797; KS (Capt. ) 1800; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1804, matr. 16 May 1804, Westminster Student; Chancellor’s Prize for Latin Verse 1807; 1st cl. Classics 1808; BA 1808; MA 1810; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 23 Jun 1808, called to bar 10 Feb 1813; a Commissioner of Bankrupts (occurs in annual lists 1816-31, when post abolished); a Commissioner of Court for Relief of Insolvent Debtors 30 Jun 1824 – Aug 1853, Chief Commissioner 1 Aug 1853-61; author, On The Passage of Hannibal over the Alps, 1866, and several legal works; m. 1 Jan 1817 Charlotte Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Sympson, Middlethorpe Hall, Yorks. ; d. 5 Oct 1869. DNB.
Law, Richard William Evan, son of George Edward Law MC FIPA, of Ewell, Surrey, and Margaret Dorothy Evans OBE, encyclopaedist, d. of Thomas Robert Evans, grain broker, of Shrewsbury, Shropshire; b. 17 May 1926; adm. Sept. 1939 (KS); Capt. of the Sch. 1943; left July 1944; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1944, BA, MA 1951; RNVR 1944-7 (Sub-Lieut. ); a merchant banker; Seligman Bros 1951-3; Gillett Bros Discount Co. 1953-83, man. dir. 1968-83; dir. Kirkland-Whittaker Ltd. (Foreign Exchange and Currency Deposits) and chmn. Kirkland-Whittaker (Italia) 1974-8; dir. BCI Ltd. 1983-7; chmn. Euromed Investments Plc 1986-97; MBE Jun 1996, for services to UK/Italian cultural relations; music critic for Opera and other periodicals 1950-; author (as Evan Hughes), Banking 1974; m. 11 Feb 1955 Joy Patricia Spira, art historian, d. of Jean-Jacques Spira MRCS LRCP, med. practitioner; d. 20 June 2007.
Law, Michael Evelyn Murray, son of John Christopher Scrimgeour Law, asst master KCS Wimbledon, and Anne Evelyn Charlotte de la Tremouille, sister of Kenneth Andrew Silver Murray (qv); b. 11 Oct. 1917; adm. Sept. 1931 (H); left Dec. 1934; RNVR in WW2 (Lieut.); d. Jan. 2002.