of Fernhill
Died on 29 August 1853.
Built himself a mansion in a piece of park land at Fernhill betweenStacksteads and Bacup, dismantled by 1920.
He also built Tunstead Church and endowed the living. There is a walltable inside it to him.Both he and his youngest brother John were J.P.'s
Lawrence was educated at the academy of Dr John Fawcett, a Baptistclergyman who lived at Hebden Bridge.
The collapse of Spain in the Napoleonic Wars for the first time threwopen South and Central America to British trade.
Lawrence was one of the first Englishmen to sail there and exploitthis commercial opportunity on behalf of his brothers and himself.
He rose to be an MP and a temperance advocate.
Had no children.
Sarah married John Heyworth, her cousin.
of Greensnook
Baptised on 6 September 1726.
Buried on 31 November 1788 [sic] according to Milton Ormerod in TheOrmerods.
Will proved in 1789.Named after his maternal grandfather, Lawrence Lord.
Became the most prosperous clothier in Bacup, inheriting Greensnookfrom the Lords when Lawrence Lord's eldest son, John, died without anymale heirs in 1762.
of Rakehead
Buried in 1804.
Baptised on 24 January 1755.
Buried on 5 February 1757.
Baptised on 21 May 1723.