GEORGE ALFRED LAWRENCE (1827–1876)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V16,
Page 305
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also:GEORGE See also:ALFRED See also:LAWRENCE (1827–1876)
, See also:English novelist, was See also:born at Braxted, See also:Essex, on the 25th of See also:March 1827, and was educated at See also:Rugby and at Balliol See also:college, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford
.
He was called to the See also:bar at the Inner See also:Temple in 1852, but soon abandoned the See also:law for literature
.
In 1857 he published, anonymously, his first novel, See also:Guy See also:Livingstone, or Thorough
.
The See also:book achieved a very large See also:sale, and had nine or ten successors of a similar type, the best perhaps being See also:Sword and See also:Gown (1859)
.
See also:- LAWRENCE
- LAWRENCE (LAURENTIUS, LORENZO), ST
- LAWRENCE, AMOS (1786—1852)
- LAWRENCE, AMOS ADAMS (1814–1886)
- LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALFRED (1827–1876)
- LAWRENCE, JOHN LAIRD MAIR LAWRENCE, 1ST BARON (1811-1879)
- LAWRENCE, SIR HENRY MONTGOMERY (1806–1857)
- LAWRENCE, SIR THOMAS (1769–1830)
- LAWRENCE, STRINGER (1697–1775)
Lawrence may be regarded as the originator in English fiction of the beau sabreur type of See also:hero, See also:great in See also:sport and love and See also:war
.
He died at See also:Edinburgh on the 23rd of See also:September 1876
.
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