3-077-744 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The new judge, Mr. J. C. Lawrance, Q.C., M.P., 1890. 'Mr. John Compton Lawrance, Q.C., M.P.. who has been raised to the Judicial Bench in the place of Mr. Justice Field, who has resigned, was born in 1832, and is the only son of Mr. Thomas Munton Lawrance of Dunsby Hall, Lincolnshire. He was called to the Bar in 1859, became a Q.C. in 1877, and a Bencher of Lincoln's Inn in 1879. He was for some time a Revising Barrister, and became Recorder of Derby in 1880. Mr. Lawrance represented South Lincolnshire from 1880 to 1885, and since then has sat for the Stamford Division, his return on the last occasion being unopposed. The Portrait is from a photograph by Messrs. Russell and Sons, of Baker-street'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.