Charles Lawrance
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Charles Lanier Lawrance was an American aeronautical engineer and an early proponent of air-cooled aircraft engines.
Charles Lawrance
President Coolidge (left) congratulates Charles Lawrance on the air-cooled aircraft radial engine that won the 1927 Collier Trophy
Frances Margaret Venables-Vernon, Baroness Vernon was an American heiress who married into the British aristocracy.
Charles Lawrance
…Lanier, who founded Winslow, Lanier & Co. His paternal grandfather was Francis Cooper Lawrance, of Paris and Pau, France. In 1885, his paternal aunt, Frances Margaret Lawrance, married George Venables-Vernon, 7th Baron Vernon. Lawrance attended the Groton School in Groton, Massachusetts, before Yale University, where he…
Portrait of Miss Lawrance, by Jules Joseph Lefebvre, 1883
Portrait of her eldest son George, as a boy, by James Jebusa Shannon, 1903