SIR TREVOR LAWRENCE, BART., K.C.V.O., etc. 



testify to the perfect courtesy and urbanity — tempered, when 

 need be, with firmness — with which Sir Trevor always presided. 

 The Secretary and all the staff, both in London and at 

 Wisley, received from the President unvarying kindness and 

 consideration, and all who worked with him had at all times 

 absolute confidence in his judgment and determination. 



In February 1906, when Sir Trevor had completed an 

 unbroken tenure of twenty-one years as President of the Society, 

 it was resolved at the Annual Meeting to invite the Fellows to 

 subscribe towards having his portrait painted by Sir Hubert 

 Herkomer, R.A., to place in the Council Room, and to establish 

 in perpetuity a gold medal, to be called " The Lawrence Medal." 

 A response of over one thousand guineas was the result. The 

 portrait was painted and now hangs at Vincent Square ; and a 

 medal was designed by Mr. Bertram Mackennal, A.R.A., which 

 ranks as the premier medal of the Society, only one being 

 awarded each year, the first medal struck being rightly given 

 to Sir Trevor; and only as late as last November a Veitch 

 Memorial medal, specially struck in gold, was presented to him 

 by the Trustees in recognition of his services to horticulture 

 during the long term of his Presidency of the Society. 



Sir Trevor Lawrence, K.C.V.O., V.M.H., and a Knight of 

 Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, was born at White- 

 hall Place, London, on December 30, 1831, and was thus within 

 a few days of his eighty-second birthday when he died at Burf ord, 

 near Dorking, on December 22, 1913. He was the only son of 

 Sir William Lawrence, Baronet, Serjeant-Surgeon to Queen 

 Victoria, a pupil of the famous Dr. Abernethy, a Fellow of the 

 Royal Society, and a Corresponding Member of the Institute of 

 France. His mother, from whom he inherited his intense love 

 of plants, was a Miss Senior of Broughton House, Buckingham- 

 shire. Educated at Winchester, he subsequently studied medicine 

 at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and in 1854 went out to India, 

 and for ten years served there on the Army Medical Staff during 

 the period of the Mutiny. He succeeded to the baronetcy in 

 1867, and in 1869 married Elizabeth, the only child of Mr. John 

 Matthew, of Burf ord, by whom he had three sons and one daughter. 

 In 1874 he unsuccessfully contested the city of Gloucester, his 

 family being an old Gloucestershire one ; but in 1875 was elected 

 one of the Members of Parliament for Mid-Surrey, which he 

 continued to represent (after it was changed to the Reigate 

 Division) without interruption until he retired in 1892, when he 



