Sir William Lawrence, 5th Baronet

Who is Sir William Lawrence, 5th Baronet?

Sir William Fettiplace Lawrence, 5th Baronet OBE is an English baronet and politician.

Lawrence was born on 14 July 1954, the son of Sir William Lawrence and his wife Pamela, Lady Lawrence. He was educated at King Edward VI School Stratford-upon-Avon. He succeeded to his father’s baronetcy in 1986.

Lawrence has filled numerous roles in his political career, specialising in the promotion of tourism in the Midlands. He has been a member of the Stratford-on-Avon District Council since 1982. He has been on the South Warwickshire General Hospital NHS Trust since 1993. He has been a member of the Heart of England Tourist Board since 1989. He has also been a Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre since 1991.

He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2003 for services to the tourist industry.

He contracted polio at the age of three, and his life has been lived from a wheelchair. He married February 2005 Tamara Bubashvili of Tbilisi, Georgia, b. 1977.