Lawrencetown was also the birthplace of William Dawson Lawrence (1817-1886), a successful shipbuilder, businessman and politician in Canada, who is reported to have built the largest wooden ship in the world in 1874.
The most famous portrait is by Edouard-Marie Adam and belongs to the Musée national de la Marine, Paris, France.
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Lawrence’s ideas about prostitution were largely influenced by Dr. William Sanger, one of the foremost researchers on prostitution during the Victorian Age.
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In Lawrence's travel writings he also wrote about visiting his birthplace of Lawrencetown, County Down, Ireland as well as hearing a sermon given by the famous Charles Haddon Spurgeon.
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