Arthur Lawley, 6th Baron Wenlock

Sir Arthur Lawley, 6th Baron Wenlock ( born November 12, 1860 in London, England; † June 14, 1932 in Freiberg ) was a British colonial administrator and Governor of Western Australia and Madras.

Life

Lawley was born in 1860 as the fourth son of Beilby Richard Lawley and his wife Elizabeth. He attended the prestigious colleges of Eton and Cambridge, but earned no degree, but joined the 10th Cavalry regiment of the British Army. In 1882 he was promoted to captain and took part in the defeat of the Mahdi uprising in Africa. In 1885 he married Annie Allen Cunnard, with whom he had three children.

After retiring from the army Lawley worked from 1892-96 as private secretary to the Duke of Westminster. After that, he was administrator of the colony from 1896-99 Matabeleland. 1901, the year of Australia's independence, he was appointed governor of the new state of Western Australia and sworn in on May 21, 1901 in Perth. In his nearly eleven-month term to April 1902 there were seven times to a government reshuffle.

From 1902 to 1906 Lawley served as vice-governor of the South African Transvaal, after he received the post of governor of Madras. In 1911 he returned to England and worked in the following as a director of several companies. In World War I he served as commissioner of the Red Cross in Boulogne -sur -Mer. He died in 1932 at the age of 71 years in Freiberg.

Mount Lawley, a suburb of Perth, is named after Lawley; also a suburb of Johannesburg (see Lawley (South Africa) ).

Awards

Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (1901 )
Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (1906 )
Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India (1911 )

Swell

Wendy Birman: Lawley, Sir Arthur ( 1860-1932 ). In: Douglas Pike ( ed.) Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Victoria 1966 ff (English)

Governor (Western Australia)
Man
Briton
Born in 1860
Died in 1932
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India
Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire

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