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Admitted 11 February, 1794.

Eldest son of Nicholas Lawless, first Lord Cloncurry, born in Dublin 19 Aug. 1773. He graduated at Trinity College in 1792. From the year 1795, when he joined the United Irishmen, he took an active part in Irish politics on the "patriotic" side, and in 1797 was a member of the directory of the United Irish Society, and in 1798 was arrested on a charge of suspicion of High Treason. Being discharged on bail, he was again arrested in the following year and committed to the Tower. He was released in 1801, and returned for a short time to Ireland, but from the year 1802 till his death lived chiefly on the Continent, though he took a keen interest, and sometimes an active part, in all matters relating to his native country. In 1831 he was created an English Peer and a Privy Councillor. In 1849 he published his Personal Reminiscences. He died at Maritimo 28 Oct. 1853, and was buried at Lyons.

Admitted 5 November, 1846.

Eldest son of John Lawrence of Bisham, Berks, where he was born in 1821. In 1846 he was employed at the British Museum, where he assisted in compiling the general catalogue. After his call to the Bar on 23 Nov. 1849, he practised at the Old Bailey and Middlesex Sessions, but devoted much time to periodical literature, contributing articles chiefly on social and political questions. He was the author besides of The Common Law Procedure Act, 1852, but his chief work was a Life of Henry Fielding, published in 1855. He died in his chambers in Essex Court, Temple, 25 Oct. 1867.

Admitted 13 February, 1633-4.

Son and heir of William Lawrence of Wraxhall, Dorset. He was educated at Oxford. He was called to the Bar 4 June, 1647, and rose to eminence in his profession. For some years he represented the Isle of Wight in Parliament, but he is chiefly remembered for his legal works on Marriage (1680); and Primogeniture (1681). He had also some merit as a poet. He died 18 March, 1680-1, and was buried at Wraxhall.

Admitted 23 November, 1676.

Son and heir of Ralph Lawton of Egham, Surrey (Surgeon-General in the Army). He was called to the Bar 25 May, 1688, but did not practise, and is now remembered chiefly by his intimate connection with William Penn, whose friend he became in 1686, and as whose agent in London he acted in 1700. He died 13 June, 1721.

His intimacy with Penn led him to contemplate a Life of that statesman, but he only accomplished a small portion of it, published in the Memoirs of the Pennsylvanian Historical Society in 1834. Some pamphlets from his pen are printed in Somers' Tracts.