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 DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. 283 Creations, Baron Maitland, 1590, Viscount Lauderdale, 1616, Earl of Lauderdale, Viscount Maitland, and Lord Thirlestane and Boltoun, 1624, all in the peerage of Scotland- A liaronet, 1672. grins, Or : a lion rampant, gules, couped at all joints of the field, within a double tressure flory counterflory of the second. Cregt, A lion sejant, full faced, gules, crowned with an open imperial crown, and holding in the dexter paw a sword, proper, pommel and hilt, gold, and in the sinister a fleur-de-lis, azure ; being, with the difference of the fleur-de-lis, instead of a sceptre in the sinister paw, the royal crest of Scotland, granted by King Charles II. to John duke of Lauderdale. Supporters, Two eagles, wings inverted proper. Sea t,^- Thirlestane Castle, Lauder, Berwickshire. Town Residence, 83, Lancaster- gate, W. Clubs, Caxlton, United Service. LATJDEEDALE, Earl of, His lordship's predecessor was his cousin, Anthony, G.C.B. K.C.M.G. 10th Earl of Lauderdale, b. June 10, 1785 ; succeeded his brother, Aug. 22, I860 ; he was an Admiral of the Red, and d. unmarried, March 22, 1863. In cou- sequence of his lordship dying without issue, the English Barony became extinct. Law (Towry-Law), family name of Baron Ellenborough. Lawless, Baron Cloncurry. Lawley, Baron Wenlock. LAWRENCE, BARON. (LAWRENCE.) JOHN LAIRD MAIR LAWRENCE, G.C.S.I. G.C.B., P.C., D.C.L., LL.D., 1st Baron, and a Bart, son of Col. Alexander William Lawrence, Governor of Upnor Castle, by Catherine Letitia, daughter of the Rev. Geo. Knox. Born 1811 ; was educated at Foyle College, and at Haileybury; entered the Bengal Civil Service, 1828 ; was Assistant to the Chief Commissioner of Delhi, 1831 6, Magistrate and Collector at Delhi, 183646, Commissioner of the Seconder Daab, 1846, Member of the Board of Administration for the Punjaub, 1849 52, Chief Commissioner, 18528, the first Lieut. -Governor of the province, 18589, and Viceroy of India, 18648. Made a K.C.B. 1856, and a G.C.B. 1857 ; received the thanks of both Houses of Parliament, 1859 ; appointed a Member of the Council of India, 1858; created Hon. D.C.L. of Oxford, and Hon. LL.D. of Cambridge, and of Dublin, 1859; was Chairman of the London School Board 1870 3 : married (1841) Harriet Catherine, daughter of the Rev. Richard Hamilton, and has issue, living,- Sons, John Hamilton, b. 1846; educated at Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A. called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn 1872; is Lieut, in the Herts Yeomanry Cavalry: m. 1872, Mary Caroline Douglas, only child of the late Richard Campbell, Esq. of Auchinhrock and Glencarradie, Argyllshire, N.B., and has issue living, a daughter, Anna Douglas, b. 18/5. Residence, 34, Beaufort Gardens, S.W. Henry Arnold, b, 1848. Charles Na,pier, 6. 1854, Herbert Alexander, b. 1861.