Charles Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence of Kingsgate
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Charles Napier Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence of Kingsgate (27 May 1855 – 17 December 1927), styled The Honourable Charles Lawrence between 1869 and 1923, was a British businessman and railway executive.

Background and education

Lawrence was the third son of John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence
John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence
John Laird Mair Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence, GCB, GCSI, PC , known as Sir John Lawrence, Bt., between 1858 and 1869, was an Englishman who became a prominent British Imperial statesman who served as Viceroy of India from 1864 to 1869.-Early life:Lawrence came from Richmond, North Yorkshire...

, and Harriette Katherine, daughter of Reverend Richard Hamilton. John Lawrence, 2nd Baron Lawrence
John Lawrence, 2nd Baron Lawrence
John Hamilton Lawrence, 2nd Baron Lawrence was a British peer and Conservative politician.Lawrence was the son of John Laird Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence, Viceroy of India, and Harriett Katherine Hamilton. Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence and George St Patrick Lawrence were his uncles...

, and Henry Arnold Lawrence
Henry Arnold Lawrence
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 were his brothers. He was educated at Marlborough College
Marlborough College
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Career

Lawrence was Chairman of the London and North Western Railway
London and North Western Railway
The London and North Western Railway was a British railway company between 1846 and 1922. It was created by the merger of three companies – the Grand Junction Railway, the London and Birmingham Railway and the Manchester and Birmingham Railway...

 from 1921 to 1923 and of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway
London, Midland and Scottish Railway
The London Midland and Scottish Railway was a British railway company. It was formed on 1 January 1923 under the Railways Act of 1921, which required the grouping of over 120 separate railway companies into just four...

 from 1923 to 1924 as well as Chairman of the North British and Mercantile Insurance Company and the Antofagasta and Bolivia Railway
Ferrocarril de Antofagasta a Bolivia
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. In 1923 he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Lawrence of Kingsgate, of Holland House, Kingsgate, in the County of Kent. He is recorded as having spoken twice in the House of Lords
House of Lords
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Personal life

Lord Lawrence of Kingsgate married Catherine, daughter of F. W. Sumner, of New York City
New York City
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, in 1881. There were no children from the marriage. He died in December 1927, aged 72, when the barony became extinct. Lady Lawrence of Kingsgate died in November 1934.
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