Stringer Lawrence [SEP] date of death
Stringer Lawrence
Major-General Stringer Lawrence (6 March 1697 – 10 January 1775) was an English soldier, the first Commander-in-Chief, India
Origins.
Lawrence was born at Hereford, England, the son of John Lawrence of Hereford by his wife Mary, about either of whom little is known. He was baptised in the Church of All Saints, Hereford, on 27 February 1697-98. Concerning his possible ancestry, in 1660 "James Lawrence, junior, gentleman", was admitted
the death of Cyril Dale in 1990, his successor Edward Dale transferred in 1994 to the Stringer Lawrence Memorial Trust and in the same year it was restored by the Devon Historic Buildings Trust. It has been a grade II* listed building, under the name of "Lawrence Castle", since 1987.
Haldon Belvedere 1789 description by Swete.
Rev. John Swete (died 1821), of nearby Oxton House, visited the tower in September 1789 and recorded in his Journal as follows:
The previously "wild and bare