Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Major the Lord Lawrence, London Regiment

British War and Victory Medals (Major Lord Lawrence); Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, light contact marks, good very fine (4) £180-220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Members of the Nobility and The Royal Household.

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Alexander Graham Lawrence, 3rd Baron Lawrence of the Punjab was born on 29 March 1878, the only son of the 2nd Lord Lawrence and his wife Mary, and the grandson of John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence of the Punjab, and sometime Viceroy of India. He was educated at Eton and Worcester College, Oxford, and served in the Territorial Army, in both the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment, and the King’s (Liverpool) Regiment. On the outbreak of the Great War he was promoted Major and posted to the 11th (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment (Finsbury Rifles) on 28 August 1914, and was appointed a Draft Conducting Officer on the Staff on 24 January 1917. He relinquished his appointments on 2 April 1919.

Lord Lawrence married Miss Dorothy Hobson, daughter of Anthony Hobson Esq., on 12 November 1907, with whom he had one son and five daughters. He succeeded his father as 3rd Baron Lawrence on the latter’s death on 22 August 1913. Lord Rotherham died on 24 June 1947, and was succeeded to the Barony by his son. The title is extant, and is currently held by the recipient’s grandson, although he has no heir.