[1][2][3] His father was an East India Company official in the Bengal Presidency.
[10][11] Bazalgette, at one time tailor to the Prince of Wales, was a successful money-lender and financier.
of Eastwick" occurs in William Carew Hazlitt's list of bibliophiles and manuscript collectors.
[13] Lawrell's library was put up for auction by Sotheby's long after his death, in 1860.
[18] He employed Robert Robinson, a Hambledon Club cricketer known as "Long Bob", as a gamekeeper.