| Beilby Lawley, 3rd Baron Wenlock GCSI, GCIE, KCB, VD, PC |
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| Governor of Madras | |
| In office January 23, 1891 – March 18, 1896 |
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| Governor General | Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin |
| Preceded by | John Henry Garstin (acting) |
| Succeeded by | Sir Arthur Elibank Havelock |
| Member of Parliament for Chester |
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| In office 1880–1880 |
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| Monarch | Victoria of the United Kingdom |
| Preceded by | John George Dodson |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | May 12, 1849 |
| Died | January 15, 1912 (aged 62) United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative Party |
| Spouse(s) | Lady Constance Mary Lascelles (1882-1912) |
| Alma mater | Eton College, Cambridge University |
| Religion | Christian |
Beilby Lawley, 3rd Baron Wenlock GCSI, GCIE, KCB, VD, PC (12 May 1849 – 15 January 1912) was a British soldier, Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1880 and administrator who was the Governor of Madras from 1891 to 1896.
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Lawley was the son of Beilby Lawley, 2nd Baron Wenlock and his wife Lady Elizabeth Grosvenor, daughter of Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster. He was educated at Eton College and at Trinity College, Cambridge.[1] He was commissioned into the Yorkshire Hussars in 1869. He rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and also held the honorary colonelcies of several reserve regiments.[2]
Wenlock was active in local affairs as a Justice of the Peace for the East and North Ridings of Yorkshire and as Chairman of East Riding County Council. At the 1880 general election he was elected Member of Parliament for Chester but inherited his peerage later in the uyear and was elevated to the House of Lords. He was Governor of Madras 1891–1895. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1901, and made a Lord of the Bedchamber to George, Prince of Wales.
In 1890, Lawley was appointed Governor of Madras by the Conservative Party which came to power in the United Kingdom. Beilby Lawley served as the Governor of Madras from January 23, 1891 to March 18, 1896. Lawley laid the foundation stone for the Nilgiri Mountain Railway which was begun in August 1891 when he was Governor.[3] During 1891-92, the northern districts of Madras Presidency were gripped by a terrible famine.[4] The government's persistence in continuing grain export from the districts of Ganjam and Viazgapatm made the situation even worser.[5] Lawley established the Board of Mohammedan Education in 1893. In 1895, Lawley laid the foundation stone for a solar observatory at Kodaikanal.[6] The Wenlock Ward of General Hospital, Madras was established in his memory.
Lawley made significant enlargements to the Government House (now Raj Bahvan), Madras. Lawley also laid the foundation stone of the Madras High Court.[7][8]
In 1872 he married Lady Constance Mary Lascelles, (1852–1932), daughter of the 4th Earl of Harewood, by whom he had one daughter: Hon. Irene Constance Lawley (b. 1889). She married Colin Gurden Forbes-Adam of Skipwith, Yorkshire.[9] The Forbes-Adam family retain the Escrick estate which they now operate as a holiday and pleasure park.[10]
He was succeeded in the Barony by his brother Richard.
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by Henry Cecil Raikes John George Dodson |
Member of Parliament for Chester 1880 With: Henry Cecil Raikes |
Vacant
Suspension until 1885
Title next held by
Balthazar Walter Foster |
| Military offices | ||
| New title | Honorary Colonel of the 2nd East Riding of Yorkshire RGA (Volunteers) 1881–1908 |
Succeeded by A.J. Downs |
| Preceded by The Lord Herries of Terregles |
Honorary Colonel of the East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry 1908–1912 |
Succeeded by J.B. Stacey-Clitheroe |
| New title | Honorary Colonel of the 2nd Northumbrian Brigade RFA 1908–1912 |
Vacant
Title next held by
O. Sanderson |
| Government offices | ||
| Preceded by John Henry Garstin |
Governor of Madras 1891–1895 |
Succeeded by Sir Arthur Havelock |
| Peerage of the United Kingdom | ||
| Preceded by Beilby Richard Lawley |
Baron Wenlock 1880–1912 |
Succeeded by Richard Lawley |