LAWRENCE, JAMES, was born at Hythe, Kent, in 1826, educated there and joined the customs at Folkestone. He came to New Zealand with H. S. Tiffen in the Westminster in 1856, and became his manager at Homewood, Kaikoura. He afterwards purchased a portion of this estate and carried it on as a sheep run till 1886. Lawrence was in the Hawke's Bay Provincial Council for Te Aute in 1875. He was chairman of the Kaikoura road board, school committee and licensing committee, a justice of the peace and president of the Waipawa Racing club. He married (1866) a daughter of Captain Brown, R.N., of Sligo, Ireland.

Parltry Record; Cycl. N.Z., vi (p).

Reference: Volume 1, page 261

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