Arthur Lawley, 6th Baron Wenlock

Arthur Lawley, ca.1910–1915

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 did not graduate, but entered the 10th Cavalry Regiment of the British Army. In 1882 he was promoted to captain and took part in the suppression 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 to 1896 as the private secretary for the Duke of Westminster . He was then from 1896 to 1899 administrator of the Matabeleland colony . In 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 . During his eleven-month term in office until April 1902, the government was reshuffled seven times.

From 1902 to 1906 Lawley served as Vice-Governor in the South African Transvaal , after which he received the post of Governor of Madras. In 1911 he returned to England and subsequently worked as a director of several companies. During the First World War he worked as a representative of the Red Cross in Boulogne-sur-Mer , France . He died in Freiberg in 1932 at the age of 71.

Mount Lawley , a borough 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)

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• Wendy Birman: Lawley, Sir Arthur (1860-1932) . In: Douglas Pike (Ed.): Australian Dictionary of Biography . Melbourne University Press, Carlton (Victoria) 1966–2012 (English).