Biography
Richard Thompson Lawley, 4th Baron Wenlock, 11th Baronet Lawley of Spoonhill, was born 21 August 1856 to Beilby Richard Lawley, 2nd Baron Wenlock (1818-1880) and Elizabeth Grosvenor (1824-1899) and died 25 July 1918 of unspecified causes. He married Rhoda Edith Knox-Little (1870-) 31 July 1909 .
Lawley joined the British Army and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the 7th Hussars on 11 February 1876. He served in the Nile Expedition of 1884-1885, and was promoted to captain on 21 July 1885, to major on 5 May 1893, and to lieutenant-colonel on 26 June 1899. In 1902 he served in South Africa during the Second Boer War, for which he was mentioned in despatches (dated 8 April 1902) and was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB). He was later colonel commanding the 7th Hussars.
He won the International Polo Cup in 1886 for Britain alongside John Henry Watson, Captain Thomas Hone, and Brigadier-General Malcolm Orme Little.
He had no children so his younger brother became the 5th Baron Wenlock.
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