1160 Lawrence Baker

Constituency : Frome 1885-6  

Lawrence  took  over  from  Henry  Samuelson,  who  was  retiring  through  illness,  at  short  notice.

Lawrence  was  the  son  of  an  army  officer  who'd  served  in  India. He  was  privately  educated  and  became a  stockjobber. He  was  a  trustee  of  the  London  Stock  Exchange. He  was  an  expert  on  foreign  bond  holdings. He  stood  at  Guildford  and  Worcester  in  earlier  elections.

Lawrence  asked  a  few  questions  about  government  expenditure.

By  the  time  of  the  1886  election  the  local  Liberals  decided  they  wanted   to  field  Samuelson's  son  instead  and  Lawrence  was  forced  to  stand  down. The  Liberals  lost  the  seat  anyway.

Lawrence  stood  in  Chertsey  in  1892  and  at  a  by-election  in  1897  without  success.

He  died  in  1921  aged  94.