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Arthur Lawley, 6th Baron Wenlock, was a British colonial administrator who served variously as Administrator of Matabeleland, Governor of Western Australia, Lieutenant-Governor of the Transvaal, and Governor of Madras. The fourth and youngest son of the 2nd Baron Wenlock, he attended Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, before joining the military. Serving in the Mahdist War, he reached the rank of captain before resigning his commission to pursue other interests. Lawley was then private secretary to his uncle, the 1st Duke of Westminster, and subsequently to the 4th Earl Grey, who he followed to Rhodesia.
Baron Wenlock is a title that has been created three times, once in the Peerage of England and twice in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The first creation came in 1461 when the soldier Sir John Wenlock was summoned to Parliament as Lord Wenlock. However, he was childless and on his death in 1471 the title became extinct.
Beilby Thompson was a British landowner and politician, who sat in the House of Commons from 1768 to 1796.
Sir Robert Lawley, 5th Baronet was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1780 to 1793.
Paul Beilby Lawley Thompson, 1st Baron Wenlock, born Paul Beilby Lawley, was an English nobleman and Whig politician.
Robert Lawley, 1st Baron Wenlock was a British landowner and politician, the eldest son of Sir Robert Lawley, 5th Baronet and Jane Thompson.
Sir Francis Lawley, 2nd Baronet was an English courtier and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1659 and 1679.
Beilby Richard Lawley, 2nd Baron Wenlock was an English nobleman, eldest son of Paul Thompson, 1st Baron Wenlock and 8th Baronet. He succeeded in the Barony and Baronetcy and to the family estate at Escrick, Yorkshire on the death of his father in 1852.
Beilby Lawley, 3rd Baron Wenlock was a British soldier, Liberal politician and colonial administrator who was the Governor of Madras from 1891 to 1896.
Francis Charles Lawley was a British journalist and Liberal Party politician.
Sir Humphrey Winch, 1st Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1660 and 1689.
Sir Thomas Lawley, 1st Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1625 and 1629.
Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Thompson Lawley, 4th Baron Wenlock, CB (1856–1918) was a British Army officer and polo champion who became the 4th Baron Wenlock and the 11th Lawley Baronet of Spoonhill in 1912.
Sir Thomas Lawley, 3rd Baronet (ca. 1650–1729) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1684 to 1689.
Thomas Lawley may refer to
Sir Edward Lawley was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1614 and 1622.
Richard Newport was an English landowner and politician of Shropshire origin, prominent regionally during the mid-Tudor and early Elizabethan periods.
John Wolryche (c.1637–1685) was a lawyer and politician of landed gentry background who represented Much Wenlock in the House of Commons of England in two parliaments of Charles II. He was a moderate Whig, opposing the succession of James II but avoiding involvement in conspiracies.
Richard Lawley, of Spoonhill and Much Wenlock, Shropshire, was an English Member of Parliament.
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