Aubrey Lawrence, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Aubrey Lawrence

British lawyer

Date of Birth: 15-Jan-1875

Date of Death: 23-Mar-1930

Profession: barrister

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Aubrey Lawrence

  • Aubrey Trevor Lawrence, MBE, KC (15 January 1875 – 23 March 1930) was a successful English barrister and author. Lawrence was born 15 January 1875, the son of Sir Trevor Lawrence, 2nd Baronet and his wife Elizabeth, Lady Lawrence.
  • He was educated at Shrewsbury and at Christ Church, Oxford where he took a first class degree in Greats.
  • When he left university he was called to the Bar. Lawrence was a member of Inner Temple.
  • He shared his chambers – Essex Court Chambers – with a young Stafford Cripps (his second cousin) and was appointed King's Counsel in 1927.
  • Lawrence was appointed as a member of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for his legal work.
  • He was also the author of numerous books, such as 'A practical treatise on the law relating to the church and clergy', a work he wrote with a young Cripps. Alongside his legal work, Lawrence was a successful local politician.
  • He was Chancellor of the Dioceses of: Sheffield in 1914, Worcester in 1920, Peterborough in 1922, Southwell in 1922, Winchester in 1924, Leicester in 1927 and Portsmouth in 1927.
  • He was also a governor of Shrewsbury School. On 8 June 1901, Lawrence married Emily Constance Fanning McGaw, an Irish heiress.
  • Her father was Joseph McGaw, an Irish landowner who had sold his estates in Ireland to buy 300,000 acres (1,200 km2) in Australia (earning himself the nickname the 'Bushwhacker').
  • By her he had two sons and one daughter: John Trevor Lawrence (18 January 1908 – 2 May 1963) Peter Stafford Hayden Lawrence (9 February 1913 – 18 March 2005); married Helena Frances Lyttelton (10 August 1940), daughter of G.
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  • Lyttelton (see Viscount Cobham) and had issue. Ruth Christian Lawrence (14 June 1904 – 31 March 1976; married 1934 Philip Olaf Buxton JP (see Buxton baronets) and had issue.

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