Lawrence, GEORGE ALFRED

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 540

Lawrence, GEORGE ALFRED, novelist, was born in 1827, and from Rugby passed to Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated with a second in classics in 1850. He was called two years later to the bar, was also a militia officer, and died in Edinburgh, 23d September 1876. Of his nine or ten novels the best is Guy Livingstone (1857).

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