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(lôr′əns, lär′-)

noun

a masculine name

Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert) 1885-1930; Eng. novelist & poet
Lawrence, Ernest O(rlando) 1901-58; U.S. physicist
Lawrence, Gertrude (born Gertrud Alexandra Dagmar Lawrence Klasen) 1898-1952; Eng. actress
Lawrence, T(homas) E(dward) (changed name, 1927, to Thomas Edward Shaw) 1888-1935; Brit. adventurer & writer
called Lawrence of Arabia
Lawrence, Sir Thomas 1769-1830; Eng. portrait painter

Origin: after Abbot Lawrence (1792-1855), Boston merchant, founder of the town
city in NE Mass.: pop. 72,000
Origin: after Amos A. Lawrence (1814-86), Boston manufacturer; active in antislavery group that founded the town
city in NE Kans., on the Kansas River: pop. 80,000

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A city of northeast Kansas on the Kansas River east-southeast of Topeka. It was founded in 1854 by the New England Emigrant Aid Society and was the scene of a proslavery raid (1856) that sparked retaliatory killings by the abolitionist John Brown. Population: 88,600.
A city of northeast Massachusetts on the Merrimack River north-northeast of Lowell. Laid out as an industrial town in 1845, it soon became one of the world's greatest centers for woolen textiles. Many of the old mills have now been renovated. Population: 70,700.

, D(avid) H(erbert) 1885-1930.

British writer whose fiction concerns the struggle for human fulfillment within a dehumanizing industrialized society. His novels include Sons and Lovers (1913), Women in Love (1920), and Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928). He also wrote literary criticism and psychoanalytical works.

, Ernest Orlando 1901-1958.

American physicist. He won a 1939 Nobel Prize for the development of the cyclotron.

, Gertrude 1898-1952.

British actress remembered for her performances in the plays Private Lives (1930) and Lady in the Dark (1940) as well as the musical The King and I (1951).

, Sir Thomas 1769-1830.

British painter remembered for his portrait series (1814-1818) of the leaders of the alliance against Napoleon.

, T(homas) E(dward) Known as “Lawrence of Arabia.” 1888-1935.

Welsh-born British soldier, adventurer, and writer who led the Arab revolt against the Turks (1916-1918) and later wrote an account of his adventures, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1926).

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