"SAVIOUR OP INDIA'S" WIDOW
DOWAGER LADY LAWRENCE DEAD. A notable link with the past has boon broken by the death at Kenley, Surrey, at the'great age of 97, of the Dowager Lady Lawrence, widow of the first Lord Lawrence, the "saviour of India." Born in 1820, a daughter ot the late Rev. Richard Hamilton, Lady Lawrence married in 1841 and was left n widow in 1879. Her liusbwi'l witered the Bengal Civil Service in VK2S,»<«I when the Mutiny broke out w.* Commissioner <if this Punjab, 1«s elder brother, Sir Henry Lntrrei i, feeing the -defender of Lucknow, »h( > ha was killed. • ■ , , , a Ladv Lawrence's husband Isplaycti great energy at Lahore on tin iitbrcak of the mutiny, his efforts K ln >j' s suppression, and ho was .»i awards Viceroy of India. The f»rant j Kob-i-Noor diamond was lost in LI ly Lawrence's house. Her husband hi i charge of it whott he was Lientencii .General of the Punjab, but one day 'I disappeared, and nothing was '- of it for some weeks until a servant knocked over a, ciaar bos in the Governor s bedroom, when the diamond rolled out.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 147, 11 March 1918, Page 6
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189"SAVIOUR OP INDIA'S" WIDOW Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 147, 11 March 1918, Page 6
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