GRACE, LAWRENCE MARSHALL (1854-1934) was born at Auckland, the son of the Rev. T. S. Grace (q.v.), and educated at Pukawa and privately in Auckland and at the Church of England Grammar School there. He spent a year on the Thames goldfield and then farmed with a brother on the Waimarino plains. The pumice land proving unsuitable for sheep, he was articled to a solicitor and became an interpreter in the native land court. He married (1885) Kahui (who died 1929), daughter of Te Heuheu Tukino (q.v.), and sister of Te Heuheu Tukino, M.L.C. Grace represented Tauranga in Parliament (1885-87) and then joined the Native department. In 1894 he was appointed interpreter in Maori to the House of Representatives. He died on 10 Jan 1934.

Grace; The Dominion, 27 May 1929; N.Z. Herald, 11 Jan 1934. Portrait: Parliament House.

Reference: Volume 1, page 173

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