Baron Lawrence, of the Punjab and of Grateley in the County of Southampton,[2] was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
It was created in 1869 for Sir John Lawrence, 1st Baronet, the former Viceroy of India.
[3] His son, the second Baron, served in the Conservative administrations of Lord Salisbury and Arthur Balfour as a government whip from 1895 to 1905.
The title became extinct on the death of the fifth Baron on 14 August 2023.
Sir Henry Lawrence, a military officer and administrator in British India, was the elder brother of the first Baron Lawrence.