1. Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, 1st Baronet was a British lawyer and Member of Parliament.
18 Facts About Edwin Durning-Lawrence
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Edwin Durning-Lawrence is best known for his advocacy of the Baconian theory of Shakespeare authorship, which asserts that Francis Bacon was the author of Shakespeare's plays.
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Edwin Durning-Lawrence published a number of books on the subject and promoted public debates with the academic community.
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Edwin Durning-Lawrence was born Edwin Lawrence, the seventh son and last child of William Lawrence and Jane Clarke.
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Edwin Durning-Lawrence's nephew was Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, the suffragette and pacifist MP.
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Edwin Durning-Lawrence married Edith Jane Smith, daughter of John Benjamin Smith, in 1874.
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On 2 February 1898 Edwin changed his name by Royal Licence to Durning-Lawrence, in honour of his wife's maternal grandfather, and was created 1st Baronet Durning-Lawrence, of King's Ride, Ascot in the County of Berkshire and of Carlton House Terrace in the County of London on 10 March the same year.
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Edwin Durning-Lawrence is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery south of the main east-west path not far from the main east entrance.
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Edwin Durning-Lawrence wrote The Progress of a Century; or, The Age of Iron and Steam, The Pope and the Bible and A Short History of Lighting from the Earliest Times.
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Edwin Durning-Lawrence wrote a number of books on the topic, the most notable of which was Bacon is Shake-Speare.
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Edwin Durning-Lawrence wrote The Shakespeare Myth, "Macbeth" Proves Bacon is Shakespeare, and Key to Milton's Epitaph on Shakespeare.
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Edwin Durning-Lawrence's writings were notable for the virulence with which he heaped abuse on William Shakespeare of Stratford:.
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Edwin Durning-Lawrence sent copies of his book to public libraries in Britain and to schools, prompting expressions of concern from Shakespeare scholars who believed unwary readers would be misled.
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Edwin Durning-Lawrence derived the argument from an earlier book by Isaac Hull Platt.
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Edwin Durning-Lawrence claimed that the Droeshout engraving of Shakespeare contained visual codes pointing to the secret authorship.
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Bacon, Edwin Durning-Lawrence believed, wrote Don Quixote, in English; Cervantes was merely the Spanish translator of Bacon's version.
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Edwin Durning-Lawrence's archive was donated to the University of London library in 1929, and established there in 1931.
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The first holder of the Edwin Durning-Lawrence chair was Tancred Borenius.