James Lawrell (1780 at

Frimley Frimley is a town in the Borough of Surrey Heath in Surrey, England, approximately southwest of central London. The town is of Saxon origin, although it is not listed in Domesday Book of 1086. Train services to Frimley (on the line between ...

, Surrey – 1842 in England) was an English amateur

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er who made 21 known appearances in

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matches from 1800 to 1810.

Background and Eastwick Park

He 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. His father was an

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official in the

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. In 1801, James Lawrell senior having died, in 1799,

Eastwick Park Eastwick Park, also Eastwich Park, at Great Bookham in Surrey, England (for the period 1726–1958) was the family seat of the Howards of Effingham for about seventy years. History Eastwick Park was built by the French Huguenot architect Nicho ...

was sold by the family of the Earls of Effingham to the trustees of James Lawrell junior, still at that time a minor. James Lawrell younger bookplate

Lawrell had major building work done on the house, in 1806–1807. 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. He sold Eastwick Park in 1809, to Louis Bazalgette. Bazalgette, at one time tailor to the Prince of Wales, was a successful money-lender and financier. "James Lawrell Esq. of Eastwick" occurs in

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's list of bibliophiles and manuscript collectors. Lawrell's library was put up for auction by

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long after his death, in 1860.

Education

Lawrell was educated at

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. While at Eton, he was one of the Eton XI flogged in 1796 for taking part in a forbidden cricket match: it was against

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, on

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. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1800.

Cricket

Lawrell was a member of

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(MCC).

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, ''Scores & Biographies'', Volume 1 (1744-1826), Lillywhite, 1862 Frimley had a cricket club from the 1820s. Lawrell was a sponsor of the Surrey county side, and played for them. He employed Robert Robinson, a

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cricketer known as "Long Bob", as a gamekeeper.

Family

Lawrell married in 1802 Maria Anne Parsons, who was the only surviving child of John Parsons. She died in 1840. *The eldest son James George Bathoe Lawrell (c.1805–1878) was a student at

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, and was an East India Company employee, resigning in 1843. His widow Caroline Margaret died in 1879. Their only daughter Catherine Maria married in 1852 Henry Raymond-Barker. Their only son Charles James Pakenham Lawrell married in 1876 Emma Caroline West Hand, third daughter of Thomas Hand. *The second son Horatio was expelled from Haileybury. He changed his surname to Bebb, in 1850, in order to benefit from the will of John Bebb of the East India Company. *The fifth son John Lawrell was a cleric. He married in 1841 Harriet Blunt, daughter of Edward Walter Blunt of Kempshott Park, Hampshire. *The eldest daughter Maria Anne (died 1861, aged 53) married in 1857 G. R. T. "Rufus" Disney, a naval officer. *Catherine Louisa, the second daughter, married in 1844 Charles Bell.

References

External sources

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lawrell, James 1780 births 1842 deaths English cricketers English cricketers of 1787 to 1825 Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Surrey cricketers Hampshire cricketers The Bs cricketers Non-international England cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club and Homerton cricketers