John Oaksey

John Geoffrey Tristram Lawrence, 4th Baron Trevethin and 2nd Baron Oaksey, OBE ( born March 21, 1929 in London, † September 5, 2012 ) was a British jockey and sports journalist.

John Lawrence 's father was Geoffrey Lawrence, the presiding judge at the International Military Tribunal at the Nuremberg trial of the major war criminals. Contrary to general expectations John Lawrence studied but after the visit of Eton College but philosophy, political science and economics at New College at the University of Oxford. He spent a year studying law at Yale Law School.

Lawrence began in 1951 while still a student to ride point- to-point races. In the hunt racing season 1957/1958 he was the most successful amateur jockey in England. 1956 Lawrence began writing about horse racing and from 1957 he had besides his work as a jockey for the Daily Telegraph his own column under the name of Marlborough. In 1959 he began to write the Audax column for the equestrian magazine Horse & Hound. He was elected to the horse racing journalist in 1968. In 1965, he reported for the first time on television about horse racing. From 1969 to 2002 he was regularly working for ITV and Channel 4 as well as for the BBC.

John Lawrence won in his career as a jockey a total of 200 races, of whom 20 were horse races. Lawrence rode in 11 Grand National races, finishing 1963 in this race in second place on the horse Carrick mountain. After a crash during a race in Folkstone 1975, he had to end his career as a jockey.

John Lawrence was appointed in February 1983 as one of the negotiators of the hijackers of the legendary racehorse Shergar.

The lintels of the jockeys Tim Brockshaw and Paddy Farrell in the Grand National in 1964, in which both riders were led paralyzed, John Lawrence emerged establishing the Brockshaw - Farrell Fund from which the Injured Jockey Fund, which cares for injured jockeys. 1985 Lawrence was taken for his social work as an Officer in the Order of the British Empire.

Private life

1959 married John Lawrence Victoria Dennistoun. 1960 his son Patrick was born, which later was followed by daughter Sara. The separation from his wife Victoria in 1985 caused a great appearance in the press, as they moved about the artist Maggi Hambling. In 1987 he sold a house on his property in Oaksey to his friend Frank Crocker and a few months later his wife moved in with him, and the two married in 1988.

Swell

• Lord Oaksey obituary in the Daily Telegraph, September 5, 2012, accessed on 23 January 2013.
• Former jockey and BBC broadcaster Lord Oaksey this on BBC News September 5, 2012, accessed on 23 January 2013.
• Lord Oaksey obituary in The Guardian September 5, 2012, accessed on 23 January 2013.
• Obituary: Lord John Oaksey, journalist, broadcaster, jockey and fundraiser, 4th Baron Trevethin and 2nd Baron Oaksey