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JOUENAL OF THE EOYAL HORTICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 
THE PRESIDENT 
OF THE 
Royal Horticultural Society. 
'Sir Trevoe Lawrence, Bart., V.M.H., President of our Society, 
is the son of Sir William Lawrence, Bart., F.K.S., Member of the 
Listitute of France, Sergeant- Surgeon to the Queen, &c.. &c., who 
^was created a Baronet in recognition of his distinguished pro- 
fessional services. He died in 1867. Sir Trevor's mother was 
23robably the first prominent English lady gardener ; her collections 
.at Ealing Park, now built over, were celebrated all over the world. 
.She died in 1855. The President was born at 18 Whitehall Place, 
lately pulled down for the new War Office, on December 30, 1831, 
and was educated at Winchester and St. Bartholomew's Hospital. 
In 1854 he went out to India in the Medical Service of the East 
Jndia Company and served through the Indian Mutiny, being for 
several years stationed in the low Himalayas and the higher ranges. 
.He retired from the Service in 1863. In 1869 he married Bessie, 
♦ only child of the late John Matthew, Esq., of Burford, Dorking, 
and has issue three sons and a daughter. 
In 1874 he unsuccessfully contested the Parliamentary repre- 
sentation of the city of Gloucester, his family being an old 
<Tloucester shire one ; but on the elevation of Sir Eichard Baggallay 
to the Bench in 1875 he was elected M.P. for Mid-Surrey with- 
'Out opposition ; and having been re-elected after a contest in 1880, 
continued to represent one of the divisions of the county of Surrey 
'down to 1892, when he retired from Parliamentary life. In 1892 
he was elected Treasurer {i.e. principal administrative officer) of 
St. Bartholomew's Hospital, which is one of the finest institutions 
-of its kind in the world. He was one of the first Aldermen of the 
.Surrey County Council, and is a Member of Committee of the Prince 
•of Wales's Hospital Fund, and of the Hospital Sunday Fund. He is 
^n enthusiastic collector of Japanese art, especially old lacquer 
^work, and has printed an illustrated catalogue with forty autotypes 
:and many wood engravings. He is a Fellow of the Pioyal Geogra- 
phical and Linnean Societies, a Member of the Koyal Institution 
