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



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Morris, K.C.M.G., Sir Albert Rollit, Sir Harry J. Veitch, 

 Mr. A. W. Sutton, Mr. W. A. Bilney, Mr. E. A. Bowles, 

 Mr. Henry B. May, and the Rev. W. Wilks, the Secretary 

 during the last twenty-five years of Sir Trevor's presidency. 

 Other prominent Fellows of the Society present were : Sir 

 Jeremiah Col man, Bart., Sir David Prain, F.R.S., Sir Arthur 

 Church, Mr. William Bateson, F.R.S., Mr. F. J. Chittenden, 

 Mr. D. W. Thomson, Mr. Thomas McRow, Mr. R. Hooper 

 Pearson, Mr. W. Bain, and Mr. W. H. White. The new 

 President, the Right Hon. Lord Grenfell, Field Marshal, 

 was unfortunately laid up with influenza and forbidden to 

 attend. 



Sir Trevor is succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son, 

 Sir William Matthew Trevor Lawrence, who has one son 

 and two daughters. Sir William was born in 1870, and 

 educated at Shrewsbury, New College, Oxford, and Heidelberg 

 and Berlin Universities, and is an Examiner in the Board of 

 Education. 



The writer of this very 

 imperfect memoir cannot but 

 feel that he has lost one of the 

 kindest of friends and one of 

 the wisest of counsellors. 



W. W. 



The following is an Extract from the Minute Book of the 

 Society's Annual Meeting, February 10, 1914. 



The Fellows of the Royal Horticultural Society in Annual 

 Meeting assembled this 10th day of February 1914 desire to 

 express their great regret at the death of their late President, Sir 

 Trevor Lawrence, Baronet, K.C.V.O., V.M.H., &c. 



They wish also to put on record their profound appreciation 



(1) Of the most eminent services rendered by Sir Trevor 



to the Society during the very difficult days which 

 beset the commencement of his Presidency in 1885 

 and the years that followed ; and also 



(2) Of the patience which he showed during the gradual 



building up again of the Society during the middle period 

 of his office ; and, lastly, 



(3) Of the tact and wisdom with which he directed the 



