Baron Lawrence

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Baron Lawrence, of the Punjab and of Grateley in the County of Southampton, was a title in the United Kingdom’s peerage. It was created in 1869 for Sir John Lawrence, who had already been made a Baronet in 1858 and who served as Viceroy of India. His son, the second Baron, was a government whip in the Conservative administrations of Lord Salisbury and Arthur Balfour from 1895 to 1905. The title became extinct on the death of the fifth Baron on 14 August 2023. Related figures include Sir Henry Lawrence, the first Baron’s elder brother and a military officer and administrator in British India, and Charles Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence of Kingsgate, the first Baron's younger son.