Born at Leighton Buzzard, where his father, William Robinson Lawford, was in practice. He received his professional training at Salop Infirmary, Shrewsbury, and after three years became a student of medicine at University College, London. After qualifying he returned in 1844 to Leighton Buzzard, where for forty-four years he was an assiduous practitioner, and for many years Physician to the Infirmary. Loved and respected by all, he retired in 1888, retaining the position of Consulting Physician to the last-named institution. He was also a Certifying Factory Surgeon, and for some years visiting Justice to the Asylums in Bedfordshire, a member of the School Board and the Urban Council, Trustee of many charities, and Vicar's Churchwarden. For years, too, he held a Bible class for youths who, from age, had discontinued attendance at school. He was a great benefactor to the parish church, restored its porches, gave clerestory windows to the nave, and had presented to the parish a house in Beaudesert as a residence for one of the curates. He was interested during the last twenty years of his life in the archaeology of Leighton, and was elected FSA. In 1866 he was President of the South Midland Branch of the British Medical Association. At the time of his death, in addition to holding other posts, he was Hon Local Secretary to the Royal Medical Benevolent College and to the British Medical Benevolent Fund. Lawford was kind, courteous, and, in character estimable, won many friends, and was a prominent citizen of Leighton. His last illness, long and full of suffering, was borne with great fortitude. He died at his residence, Oriel House, Leighton, on October 2nd, 1899, and was buried in the family vault in the churchyard of All Saints' Church. Publications: Early in his career Lawford published several papers in the *Brit Med Jour*. *The Antiquities of Leighton Buzzard*. "Case of Oedema of Glottis, following Accidental Drinking of Sulphuric Acid, in which Tracheotomy was performed." - *Brit Med Jour*, 1859, 942. "Proper Use of Stramonium in Hay Asthma." - *Ibid*, 1860, 657. He was an inventor, and published a paper on his "Tracheal Director to Fix the Trachea and Direct the Knife during the Operation of Tracheotomy." - *Ibid*, 1859, 942 (end of the paper on "Oedema of Glottis" above).