George Alfred Lawrence was a British author and lawyer who was born on March 25, 1827, and died on September 23, 1876. There was a boy named George Alfred Lawrence born in Buxted, Sussex. He was the oldest child of Rev. Alfred Charnley Lawrence, who was Curate of Uxfield Chapel, Buxted, and Lady Emily Finch-Hatton (1797-1868), who was the daughter of George Finch-Hatton and Lady Elizabeth Murray. George William Finch-Hatton, 5th Earl of Nottingham and 10th Earl of Winchilsea, was her brother. He went to school in Rugby and at Balliol College, Oxford. In 1851, he married Mary Ann Georgiana Kirwan, who was the daughter of Patrick Kirwan and Louisa Browne. Louisa's siblings were Dominick Browne, 1st Baron Browne, and Henrietta Browne, Viscountess Dillon. George and Mary had at least two sons. Their names were Francis Richard Hatton Lawrence and George Patrick Charles. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1852, but he soon quit to write books. His first book, Guy Livingstone, came out secretly in 1857 and "painted a more violent picture of Rugby School than Thomas Hughes." A lot of people liked this. He wrote more stories in what is known as the "muscular school" of novel-writing. These stories introduced the "beau sabreur" type of hero who was good at sports, love, and war.
