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INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915. Government of India, 1889; Settlement Commissioner, Kashmir, 1889-95; Private Secretary to Lord Curzon when Viceroy of India. 1898-1903; Chief of the Staff of Prince of Wales when on tour in India, 1905; Honorary Secretary to the Countess of Dufterin’s Fund; has a son, Rowland, b. 1886; 3rd BartBatt [sic]. Coldstream Guards. Publications: “The Valley of Kashmir”. Address: 22, Sloane Garlands, S.W. Clubs: Bath, BeefsteekBeefsteak [sic], Garrick. 

Lawson, A. B.. C.I.E. (1911), Editor, “Madras Mail”; b. 1863; o. surviving s. of Sir Charles Lawson; educ: Deadham Grammar School, and Dover College; joined the staff of the “Madras Mail”; as Manager, 1883; was sub-editor, Assistant Editor and Co-Editor; became Chief Editor, 1907; has been Secretary, Chamber of Commerce, Madras, since 1893; was Sheriff of Madras. 1891-93. Address: ‘Shortlands’, Nungumbakum, Madras, India. 

Lawson, Sir Charles Allan, Kt., (1877); s. of late Jonathan Wise Lawson; b. in London, 1838; m. 1st, Mary, d. of A. Webber; 2nd, Catherine Jane, d. of William Shaw, 1893; arrived in Madras, 1863; Editor of the “Daily News”, 1863; Editor, “Madras Times”, 1864-68; founded and edited the “Madras Mail”, 1868-93; presented an Address to Her late Majesty Empress Victoria on the occasion of Her Diamond Jubilee, on behalf of the people of Madras, 1887; retired, 1893. Publications: British and Native Cochin; ’At Home on Furlough’; ‘The Private Life of Warren Hastings’; ‘Memoirs of Madras’. Club: Constitutional. 

Lawson, Eric St. John, Commissioner of Police, Bangkok. Siam, since 1903; b. 1889; 5th s. of late George Lawson, F.R.C.S., Surgeon and OculistOcculist [sic] to Empress Victoria; educ: Westminster School; joined service as Inspector of Police, Burmah, 1891; transferred to India, 1893; services lent to Siamese Government to assist in reorganisation of Police; received decoration of 3rd class of White Elephant, 1894. Recreations; shooting. Address: Bangkok, Siam; The Hut, Saint’s Bay, Guernsey. Clubs: East India United Service, British Bangkok. 

Laxmilal, Dowlat Rai Uetha, Rai Sahib (1893), Durbar Vakil, Baroda; b. 1856; educ: Baroda; awarded a silver medal by H.H. the Gaikwar of Baroda. Address: Baroda, Central India. 

LaynardLayard [sic], Hon’ble Sir Charles Peter. Kt., (1903), M.A., Chief Justice, Ceylon, (retired); o.s. of late Sir C. Peter LaynardLayard [sic], K.C.M.G.; educ: Cheltenham College, and St. John’s College, Cambridge; called to Bar (Inner Temple), 1873; m. Ada Alexandrina, 2nd d. of A. A. J. Mortlake; enrolled as an Advocate, Supreme Court, Ceylon, 1873; became Solicitor-General, 1888; acting Attorney-General, 1891 93; Judge, Supreme Court, 1893; represented Ceylon at the inauguration of the Commonwealth of Australia; became Chief Justice, Supreme Court, Ceylon, 1903. Address; The Grey House, Longton Green, Kent. Club: Oxford, CambridgeOxford and Cambridge [sic]. 

'''Leach, Brigdr. Genl. Harold Pemberton', D.S.O. (1891), R.E. Indian Army (retired); b''. 1851; 249