Thomas Lawrence (Governor of Maryland)


Sir Thomas Lawrence, 3rd Baronet was the 2nd Royal Governor of Maryland in 1693, elected by the Governor's Council following the death of Sir Lionel Copley,. He governed the colony for only a few weeks before the new royally appointed governor, Edmund Andros,, arrived from his trans-Atlantic trip to take over control of the colony. He was briefly the 6th Royal Governor of Maryland a second time when Andros then left the colony in 1694 and Annapolis, while his family probably stayed in England. In 1693 he was President of the Council and acting Royal Governor of Province of Maryland. Lawrence returned to England in 1705/6. He died in 1714, and at his death the baronetcy became extinct.