James Lawrell (1780 at Frimley, Surrey – 1842 in England) was an English amateur cricketer who made 21 known appearances in first-class cricket matches from 1800 to 1810.
Background and Eastwick Park
editHe was the son of James Lawrell (or Laurell), who had married in 1776 Catherine Sumner, daughter of William Brightwell Sumner and sister of the politician George Holme-Sumner.[1][2][3] His father was an East India Company official in the Bengal Presidency.[4] In 1801, James Lawrell senior having died, in 1799, Eastwick Park was sold by the family of the Earls of Effingham to the trustees of James Lawrell junior, still at that time a minor.[5][6][7]
Lawrell had major building work done on the house, in 1806–1807.[8] At this period he sold the estate and mansion attached to his father's other Surrey property, Frimley Park some way to the west, but retained the house Frimley Manor.[9] He sold Eastwick Park in 1809, to Louis Bazalgette.[10][11] Bazalgette, at one time tailor to the Prince of Wales, was a successful money-lender and financier.[12]
"James Lawrell Esq. of Eastwick" occurs in William Carew Hazlitt's list of bibliophiles and manuscript collectors.[13] Lawrell's library was put up for auction by Sotheby's long after his death, in 1860.[14]
Education
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Lawrell was educated at Eton College.[1] While at Eton, he was one of the Eton XI flogged in 1796 for taking part in a forbidden cricket match: it was against Westminster School, on Hounslow Heath.[15][16] He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1800.[1]
Cricket
editLawrell was a member of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).[17] Frimley had a cricket club from the 1820s. Lawrell was a sponsor of the Surrey county side, and played for them.[18] He employed Robert Robinson, a Hambledon Club cricketer known as "Long Bob", as a gamekeeper.[19][20]
Family
editLawrell married in 1802 Maria Anne Parsons, who was the only surviving child of John Parsons.[21][22] She died in 1840.[23]
- The eldest son James George Bathoe Lawrell (c.1805–1878) was a student at Haileybury College, and was an East India Company employee, resigning in 1843.[24] His widow Caroline Margaret died in 1879.[25] Their only daughter Catherine Maria married in 1852 Henry Raymond-Barker.[26] Their only son Charles James Pakenham Lawrell married in 1876 Emma Caroline West Hand, third daughter of Thomas Hand.[27]
- The second son Horatio was expelled from Haileybury.[28] He changed his surname to Bebb, in 1850, in order to benefit from the will of John Bebb of the East India Company.[29]
- The fifth son John Lawrell was a cleric.[30] He married in 1841 Harriet Blunt, daughter of Edward Walter Blunt of Kempshott Park, Hampshire.[31]
- The eldest daughter Maria Anne (died 1861, aged 53) married in 1857 G. R. T. "Rufus" Disney, a naval officer.[32][33][34]
- Catherine Louisa, the second daughter, married in 1844 Charles Bell.[35]
References
edit- ^ a b c Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ Burke, John (1835). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank: But Uninvested with Heritable Honours. Henry Colburn. p. 61.
- ^ The Gentleman's and London Magazine: Or Monthly Chronologer, 1741-1794. J. Exshaw. 1741. p. 771.
- ^ Calendar of Persian correspondence, being letters, referring mainly to affairs in Bengal, which passed between some of the company's servants and Indian rulers and notables (1911), p. 390 note 5. JSTOR saoa.crl.26552581
- ^ The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle. E. Cave. 1799. p. 627.
- ^ Brayley, Edward Wedlake (1850). A Topographical History of Surrey. G. Willis. p. 507.
- ^ Brayley, Edward Wedlake (1850). A Topographical History of Surrey. G. Willis. p. 469.
- ^ Country Life. 1921. p. 537.
- ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1001472)". National Heritage List for England.
- ^ Ogilvy, James S. (1914). A Pilgrimage in Surrey. George Routledge & Sons. p. 265.
- ^ Halliday, Stephen (2001). The Great Stink of London. History Press. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-7524-9378-7.
- ^ "Louis Bazalgette ???? - 1830, Legacies of British Slave-ownership". www.ucl.ac.uk.
- ^ Hazlitt, William Carew (1971). A Roll of Honour: A Calendar of the Names of Over 17,000 Men and Women who Throughout the British Isles and in Our Early Colonies Have Collected Mss. and Printed Books from the XIVth to the XIXth Century, with Topographical and Personal Notices and Anecdotes of Many of Them and Their Libraries and Introductory Remarks, to which are Added Indexes of Localities, and of Ranks and Occupations. B. Franklin. p. 133.
- ^ "The" Athenaeum: Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music and the Drama. Francis. 1860. p. 4.
- ^ Ashley-Cooper, Frederick Samuel (1922). Eton V. Harrow at the Wicket: With Some Biographical Notes, Poems, and Genealogical Tables. St. James's Press. p. 18.
- ^ Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. William Blackwood. 1866. p. 321.
- ^ Arthur Haygarth, Scores & Biographies, Volume 1 (1744-1826), Lillywhite, 1862
- ^ "Frimley Cricket Club". www.frimleycc.co.uk.
- ^ The Lads of the Village: A Magazine of Universal Recreation. J.A. Brooks. 1875. p. 133.
- ^ Country Life. Country Life, Limited. 1965. p. 89.
- ^ The Gentleman's Magazine. F. Jeffries. 1802. p. 1779.
- ^ Gibson, Alexander George (1926). The Radcliffe Infirmary. Oxford University Press. p. 93.
- ^ Colonial Magazine and Commercial-maritime Journal. Fisher, son. 1840. p. 256.
- ^ Dāsa, Rāmachandra; Prinsep, Henry Thoby (1844). A General Register of the Hon'ble East India Company's Civil Servants of the Bengal Establishment from 1790 to 1842. Printed at the Baptist Mission Press. p. 19.
- ^ "Obituary Notices". Homeward Mail from India, China and the East. 15 April 1879. pp. 28–29.
- ^ The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle. Edw. Cave, 1736-[1868]. 1852. p. 305.
- ^ "Births, Marriages and Deaths". Reading Mercury. 29 April 1876. p. 5.
- ^ James, Patricia (2013). Population Malthus: His Life and Times. Routledge. p. 322. ISBN 978-1-136-60155-2.
- ^ The London Gazette. T. Neuman. 1850. p. 1599.
- ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ Burke, John; Burke, Sir Bernard (1850). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. Henry Colburn. p. 114.
- ^ "Births etc". Morning Post. No. 7 February 1857.
- ^ "London Morning Post Newspaper Archives, Feb 7, 1857, p. 8". NewspaperArchive.com. 7 February 1857.
- ^ The Monthly. p. 232.
- ^ "Births". Morning Post. 26 June 1844. p. 8.