Sir Lawrence Weaver FSA
Born 2 July 1876
Died 9 January 1930
Active: 1908
Architectural writer, editor, civil servant
In 1909 he wrote 'English Leadwork: its Art and History' which led to him being appointed architectural editor of Country Life (1910-16). His later publications included: 'Small Country Houses of To-Day' (2 vols., 1910; rev. edn, 1922–5) and the 'Houses and Gardens of Edwin Lutyens' (1913; rev. edn, 1925).
Sources
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1901-1912
1908, p.6.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
Christopher Hussey, ‘Weaver, Sir Lawrence Walter William (1876–1930)’, rev. Catherine Gordon, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/36792, accessed 28 July 2010]
Citing this record
'Sir Lawrence Weaver FSA', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1215783262, accessed 23 Mar 2023]
