Sir James Lawrence, 1st Baronet

Sir James Clarke Lawrence, 1st Baronet (1820 - 21 May 1897) was Lord Mayor of London and a Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1885.

[2] In 1868 he became Lord Mayor of London, shortly before he was re-elected for Lambeth at the 1868 general election.

He was created a baronet in November 1869[3] on the opening of Holborn Viaduct and Blackfriars Bridge.

[4] He and his brother Edwin were of material assistance to the Unitarians, donating a site in Kensington worth £5000, on which a church was built in 1887.

The inaugural congregation, started by Theophilus Lindsey in 1774, moved to that location, thus freeing up Essex Street Chapel to be turned into offices and used for the general good of the denomination, as specified by the brothers.