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George William Lawrence, M.D.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

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At the early age of thirty-seven, an accomplished physician has been lost to the profession in Dr. George William Lawrence, who died on the 22nd ult., at Layer Breton Hall. Educated at King's College, of which he was an Associate, he graduated M.B. Lond. in 1857 and in 1859. He held the posts of housephysician to King's College Hospital and of lecturer on botany at Middlesex Hospital; and afterwards devoted himself to the specialty of lunacy. He was successively resident physician at the Camberwell House Lunatic Asylum and medical superintendent of the Cambridge County Asylum—a situation from which increasing ill-health compelled him, in 1867, to seek the retirement of the superannuation list.—“Lancet,”

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Part IV.—Notes and News
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