L. P. Lawrence

[2] He worked as clerk and storeman on a sheep station near Bathurst and at a softgoods warehouse in Melbourne, where in 1862 he married, before moving to New Zealand, where the Otago gold rush was under way.

The unions called a strike, whereupon the owners closed the South Australian factories,[8] and Hart & Lawrence became solely a wholesale outlet for the Victorian manufacturers.

Lawrence retired as a director of States Tobacco in 1904, having been for 20 years closely associated with the mercantile life of South Australia.

He was He was active in a range of philanthropic movements: he was On the social and sporting side he was He was highly respected as a gentleman and citizen, and mourned by a wide circle of friends.

[15] Connection, if any, to Lawrence's Tobacco Store, corner King William and Rundle streets, has not yet been established.