Arnold Walter Lawrence F.B.A. (1900 - 1991)

Born 2 May 1900 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Husband of Barbara Manorama Innes (Thompson) Lawrence — married 1925 in London, England

Died 31 Mar 1991 at age 90 in 44 Long Street , Devizes, Wiltshire, England

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Biography

Arnold Lawrence F.B.A. is Notable.

Arnold Walter Lawrence (1900-1991) was the illegitimate son of Sir Thomas Robert Tighe Chapman, 7th Bt. and Sarah ( Junner ) Lawrence.^[1], born at 2 Polstead Road, Oxford.

He was the youngest of five sons born to Thomas Chapman and Sarah ( Junner ) Lawrence (1861–1959). He wrote widely on the subject of Greek architecture and sculpture as well as on fortifications in west Africa.

He was the model for the statue of "Youth" (1920), sculpted by Kathleen Scott, at the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge

He married Barbara Innes Thompson in January 1925 at West Ham, Essex, England

Arnold Walter Lawrence was a Fellow of the British Academy.

He died Aged 90 in 1991 at Devizes, Wiltshire, England.

Sources

1. ↑ England & Wales General Register Office, GRO Online Index - Birth (https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content) : accessed 14 December 2020, database entry for LAWRENCE, ARNOLD WALTER ; GRO Reference: 1900 June Quarter in OF HEADINGTON Volume 03A Page 938 ; Mother's maiden name: JUNNER

See also:

• Wikipedia : Arnold Walter Lawrence, FBA
• Wikidata: Item Q4647445, en:Wikipedia

• The Peerage.com (M, #325094)