Lawes
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Lawes is the surname of the following people:
  • Arthur Lawes
    Arthur Lawes
    Arthur Lawes was a rugby league player in the Australian competition the New South Wales Rugby League. Lawes played for the Eastern Suburbs club, playing 4 matches in the year 1909.-References:...

    , 20th century rugby league footballer
  • Courtney Lawes
    Courtney Lawes
    Courtney Lawes is a professional rugby player for Northampton Saints, who play in the Aviva Premiership. Lawes is a versatile player, equally at home in the second and back rows. Indeed, he is the very epitome of the modern rugby forward, more akin to a basketball player thanks to an athletic...

     (born 1989), rugby union player
  • Frank Lawes
    Frank Lawes
    Frank Lawes was an English banjo composer and performer from Ifold, West Sussex. He was responsible for composing a large number of well known banjo pieces.He is the great grandfather of the motoring author, Jon Lawes.-Pieces Composed:...

    , an English composer
  • Henry Lawes
    Henry Lawes
    Henry Lawes was an English musician and composer.He was born at Dinton in Wiltshire, and received his musical education from John Cooper, better known under his Italian pseudonym Giovanni Coperario, a famous composer of the day...

    , an English musician and composer.
  • John Bennet Lawes
    John Bennet Lawes
    Sir John Bennet Lawes, 1st Baronet FRS was an English entrepreneur and agricultural scientist. He founded an experimental farm at Rothamsted, where he developed a superphosphate that would mark the beginnings of the chemical fertilizer industry.John Bennet Lawes was born at Rothamsted in...

    , an English entrepreneur and agricultural scientist.
  • John Lawes (company director)
    John Lawes (company director)
    John Frederick Renshaw Lawes was an Australian company director and chairman of QBE Insurance. -Early life:Lawes was born in Petersham, New South Wales. His father, Dr Charles Lawes, was a medical graduate of the University of Sydney and John was one of four brothers with one sister...

     an Australian company director and former chairman of QBE Insurance.
  • Jon Lawes
    Jon Lawes
    Jon Lawes is a Motoring Author and Aviation Engineer, currently living in Dorset, UK.Author of the motor sport reference book 'Competition Car Electrics' published by Haynes in 2006, his writing style has been described as "easy to understand" , whilst 'Competition Car Electrics' has been described...

    , an English Motoring Author.
  • Lewis Lawes
    Lewis Lawes
    Lewis Edward Lawes was a prison warden and an outspoken proponent of prison reform.-Biography:He was born on September 13, 1883, the only child of Henry Lewis and Sarah Abbott...

    , a prison warden and an outspoken proponent of prison reform.
  • Nicholas Lawes
    Nicholas Lawes
    Sir Nicholas Lawes was Governor of Jamaica from 1718 to 1722.He was a British knight.In his capacity as Governor during the Golden Age of Piracy he tried many pirates, among them "Calico Jack" Rackham, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Robert Deal, & Charles Vane...

    , Governor of Jamaica from 1718 to 1722.
  • William Lawes
    William Lawes
    William Lawes was an English composer and musician.-Life and career:Lawes was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire and was baptised on 1 May 1602...

    , an English composer and musician.
  • William George Lawes
    William George Lawes
    William George Lawes was an English-born Congregationalist minister, missionary and public lecturer. He was regarded as an expert on Papua....

    , New Guinea pioneer missionary.
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