John Laird Mair Lawrence 1st Baron Lawrence 1811 1879 British pro-consul imperial statesman Viceroy India
John Laird Mair Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence 4 March 1811 – 27 June 1879 was an Irishman who became a prominent British pro-consul and imperial statesman who served as Viceroy of India from 1864 to 1869. In that role, Lawrence was partly responsible for preventing the spread of the Mutiny to Punjab in 1857, and negotiated a treaty with the Afghan ruler Dost Mohammed Khan, and later led the troops which recaptured Delhi from the rebellious sepoys. For this, he was created a baronet and received an annual pension from the East India Company of £2,000. Lawrence spent his early years in Derry, part of the Province of Ulster in the northern part of Ireland, and was educated at Foyle College (now Foyle and Londonderry College), where a statue to him stands (having been, originally, erected in Lahore). The statue, by Sir Joseph Boehme, once showed Lawrence with a pen in one hand and a sword in the other to illustrate his versatility as an administrator and a soldier but vandals have since damaged the sword. Another statue of Lawrence stands in Waterloo Place in central London.
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