Sir Laurence George Brock CB (7 May 1879 – 29 April 1949) was a British civil servant. He was chairman of the Board of Control for Lunacy and Mental Deficiency from 1928 to 1945. Brock was born in

Islington Islington () is a district in the north of Greater London, England, and part of the London Borough of Islington. It is a mainly residential district of Inner London, extending from Islington's High Street to Highbury Fields, encompassing the ar ...

, London to George William Frederick Brock, a clerk, and Eliza Jane Wilkins. His younger sister, Dorothy Brock, was a headmistress of the Mary Datchelor School, Prior to becoming chairman of the Board of Control, Brock served as private secretary to the

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(1905–12), assistant secretary to the National Health Insurance Commission (1912–16), assistant secretary to the Ministry of Health (1919–25), and principal assistant secretary of the Board of Control (1925–28). He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1919 and was knighted in 1935. He was also a Chevalier of the

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. He died in 1949 in Oxford. Eight portraits are held by the

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in London. He married Ellen Margery Williams on 31 July 1917. They had two sons and one daughter. Lady Brock died in 1976.

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1879 births 1949 deaths Companions of the Order of the Bath Knights Bachelor British civil servants People from the London Borough of Islington {{UK-gov-bio-stub