John Lawrence, 2nd Baron Lawrence

Who was John Lawrence, 2nd Baron Lawrence?

John Hamilton Lawrence, 2nd Baron Lawrence was a British peer and Conservative politician.

Lawrence was the son of John Laird Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence, Viceroy of India, and Harriett Katherine Hamilton. Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence and George St Patrick Lawrence were his uncles. He succeeded his father as second Baron Lawrence in 1879 and tooks his seat on the Conservative benches in the House of Lords. In 1895 he was appointed a Lord-in-Waiting in the Conservative administration of Lord Salisbury, a post he held until 1905, the last three years under the premiership of Arthur Balfour.

Lord Lawrence married Mary Caroline, only daughter of Richard Campbell, in 1872. He died in August 1913, aged 66, and was succeeded in his titles by his son Alexander. Lady Lawrence died in 1938.