Archibald Campbell Lawrie

Sir Archibald Campbell Lawrie, FRCI (8 September 1837 – 11 May 1914[1]) was a British judge in Ceylon and scholar of Scottish legal history.

[2] He was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates, and in 1872 was appointed a Judge of the District Court of Kandy, Ceylon.

On 6 July 1892 he was appointed Senior Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court in British Ceylon.

He retired in 1901, was appointed a knight Bachelor in the November 1901 Birthday Honours list,[3] and received the knighthood from King Edward VII on 10 December 1901.

In his early years in Scotland in the 1860s he was a contributor to the works of the legal historian Cosmo Innes.