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Name: LAWLEY, Cyril Sharwood (Capt.)
Nee: nephew of Sir Arthur Lawley, a former Governor of Bombay
Birth Date: 6 Dec 1876 Finsbury, Msex.
Death Date: 2 Aug 1954 Redruth
First Date: 1907 (July)
Profession: Cuckoo - started a much needed and profitable ricksha service, for the day of motor cars had not yet dawned. Lawley's rickshas were rubber-tyred, had ball-bearing wheels, and provided a comfortable means of transport. Soon gained a monopoly.
Area: Nairobi
Married: 1901 Maisie 'May' Susan Kathleen b. 1888, d. 21 Dec 1969 Walsall
Children: Joan Elizabeth (31 May 1914 Beckley, Sussex); Lionel Laidlow (1920)
Book Reference: SE, Cuckoo, Drumkey, Advertiser, EAHB 1907
War Service: RE
General Information:
SE - Capt. C. Lawley - July 1907
Advertiser - 16/10/1908 - Mr Lawley has sold his rickshaw business to Mr Marcus
Advertiser - 30/10/1908 - Letter re rickshaws - Cyril Lawley - all rickshaw owners in Nairobi Europeans with a properly constituted Association.
Advertiser - 15/1/09 - Service in Somaliland [against the Mad Mullah] Will all those desiring to volunteer for service please communicate with the undersigned. It is proposed that a meeting should be immediately convened with a view to discussing whether recruits should join the "Legion of Frontiersmen" or obtain sanction to go in the same capacity as "Lockson's Horse" who did so much good for themselves and their country in the Natal Rebellion. Major Ross DSO might be petitioned to take command of the Nairobi contingent. Cyril S. Lawley, Grand Hotel.
1939 England and Wales Register living in Surbiton (no wife with him)
Was on the electoral roll of Balaclava, Victoria, Australia in 1928 (with wife)