LAWRENCE, Baron the right honorable JOHN LAIRD-MAIR, is younger son of lieut. col. Alexander Lawrence, who served in the Mysore campaign, and at the capture of Seringapatain. Born at Richmond, Yorkshire. 1811, he obtained, in 1827, a presenia Hon io llaileybnry college, where he carried off the chief prizes. Ills first years in the Indian civil service were spent in Delhi and the neighborhood. On the annexation of the Punjab, Lawrence was appointed commissioner, and afterwards lient.gov. of the Punjab. When the Indian mutiny broke out, he proved the mainstay of the British dominion in India. The once restless Sikhs lied become so attached to his firm and beneficent rule, that Lawrence was enabled to send troops to the relief of Delhi, etc. So timely was this succor, and so great was his foresight, that he was styled " the savior of India." On his return to England he received the thanks of parliament. with the grant of it pension of £1000 it year. He was made a baronet in 1838, and a privy-coun cilor in 1859. In 1861 Lawrence was nominated one of the knights of the "Star of
India." In 1863 he succeeded the late lord Elgin as gov.gen. of India; he was made a member of the Indian council, and the court of directors of the East India company granted him a life pension of £2000 a year. In 1869 he was raised to the house of peers. At the first election of the school-board in 1870, lord Lawrence was elected chairman, a post he subsequently resigned.
• His elder brother, brig.gen. Sin HENRY MONTGOMERY LAWRENCE, horn in 1806, was chief commissioner of Lu•know, and virtually governor of Onde ;vile', the Indian mutiny broke .out. While in command of the heroic men who defended the women and children in the residency ofLucknow, sir Henry was wounded by the explosion of n shell, and died July 4, 1857. IIe was the founder of the Lawrence asylum for the reception of the children of the European soldiers in India. A monument to his mem ory has been placed in St. Paul's cathedral.