LAWRENCE, JAMES

(1781-1813), an American naval officer. He entered the Navy as a midshipman in 1798, served in the war with Tripoli, being one of the boarding party which captured the frigate Philadelphia, and in the year 1812 had command of the Hornet, with which he fought and captured the British brig Peacock in fifteen minutes. In 1813 he was given command of the frigate Chesapeake, lying in Boston Harbor, which was being blockaded by the British ship Shannon. On June 1 he sailed out of the harbor and gave the Shannon battle, the Chesapeake being compelled to surrender, but not until after Captain Lawrence had __been fatally wounded. His last words, “Don’t give up the ship,’ have become a cla ic in American school books. 1ST LAWRENCE, BARON L. JOHN LAIRD MAIR is trat or; younger s. of Lieut.-Col. Alexander L., who served in Mysore campaign, 1790, and capture of Seringa pat am, 1799, and younger bro. of Sir Henry L., hero of Lucknow; on annexation of Punjab, 1849, became commi ioner, and subsequently lieut.-gov., and won devotion of untamable Sikhs; loyalty of Punjab proved salvation of British at outbreak of Mutiny; troops sent by L. relieved important garrisons; received annual pension of $5,000 as reward; baronet, 1858; P.C., 1859; Gov.-Gen. of India, 1863, and received. annual pension of $10,000 from East India Company; baron, 1869.