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Richard H. Lawrence

Banker

Centurion, 1906–1936

Full Name Richard Hoe Lawrence

Born 18 March 1858 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Died 1 March 1936 in Palm Beach, Florida

Buried Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York

Proposed by Howard Mansfield and William Loring Andrews

Elected 3 November 1906 at age forty-eight

Century Memorial

Richard Hoe Lawrence, like many other Wall Street bankers, was in reality more interested in his avocations than in his professional occupation. Partner during many years in a well-known Stock Exchange house, he was a collector of Oriental art, a good authority on the history both of early Rome and of early New York City, a well-informed coin collector and an expert photographer. His older-time associates will remember him for his remarkable photographic pictures, prepared four decades ago, for a special edition of Washington Irving’s “Alhambra.”

Alexander Dana Noyes
1937 Century Association Yearbook