Sir William Lawrence, 3rd Baronet
Sir William Matthew Trevor Lawrence, 3rd Baronet JP FSA (17 September 1870 – 4 January 1934) was an English horticulturalist, hospital administrator and collector. Early life Lawrence was born on 17 September 1870, the son of Elizabeth Matthew and Sir Trevor Lawrence. He was educated at Bradfield College and at New College, Oxford. On 24 February 1908 he married Iris Eyre, daughter of Brigadier-general Eyre Macdonell Stewart Crabbe, CB, and by her had two sons and three daughters. His eldest daughter, Barbara, married Alfred Gordon Clark, a county court judge and crime writer as Cyril Hare, and his second daughter, Anne, was the mother of Rose Gray, of The River Cafe. On 22 December 1913 he succeeded to his father's baronetcy (see Lawrence Baronets). Career Lawrence studied chemistry at the University of Oxford, graduating with a third class degree. He continued his studies in Heidelberg, and then Berlin where he undertook a doctorate. On returning to the UK he spent five years at Owens College, Manchester, working as a demonstrator and later an assistant lecturer in chemistry. In 1902 he took up a position as a junior inspector with the Board of Education, becoming a senior examiner in 1912. However