[3] Having finished second in the 1 mile at Eton in 1859, he also enjoyed success at the university distance running events.

[10][11][12][13] Lawes decided to become a sculptor, and began his training in London under John Henry Foley RA.

In 1882 Lawes was involved in a libel case after he had imputed in the magazine Vanity Fair and elsewhere that another sculptor, Richard Claude Belt, was dishonest for taking credit for work done by someone else.

The event was held in London's Royal Albert Hall, and was judged by Lawes, Sandow and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

[17] In 1906 Lawes-Wittewronge executed The Death of Dirce, a bronze sculptural group based on the Farnese Bull, a classical work depicting the same subject.

Too large to be satisfactorily displayed indoors, it was installed on the terrace to the left of the building's entrance, where it still stands.

[18] Charles Lawes married his first cousin Marie Amelie Rose "Amy" Fountaine on 8 April 1869 in St George's Church' Hanover Square, London, she was a daughter of Charles George & Rose Sarah Ravenshaw m 11 April 1848, St Marylebone, London.