GEORGE

See also:

• ALFRED

ALFRED

See also:

• LAWRENCE
• LAWRENCE (LAURENTIUS, LORENZO), ST
• LAWRENCE, AMOS (1786—1852)
• LAWRENCE, AMOS ADAMS (1814–1886)
• GEORGE ALFRED LAWRENCE (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 (1827–1876)  , English novelist, was born at Braxted, Essex, on the 25th of March 1827, and was educated at Rugby and at Balliol college, Oxford . He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1852, but soon abandoned the law for literature . In 1857 he published, anonymously, his first novel, Guy Livingstone, or Thorough . The book achieved a very large sale, and had nine or ten successors of a similar type, the best perhaps being Sword and Gown (1859) . Lawrence may be regarded as the originator in English fiction of the beau sabreur type of hero, great in sport and love and war . He died at Edinburgh on the 23rd of September 1876 .