Ivan Lawrence
| Ivan Lawrence | |
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Member of Parliament for Burton |
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In office 28 February 1974 – 1 May 1997 |
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| Preceded by | John Jennings |
| Succeeded by | Janet Dean |
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24 December 1936 Brighton |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Alma mater | Christ Church, Oxford |
| Profession | Law |
| Religion | Judaism |
Sir Ivan John Lawrence, QC (born 24 December 1936) is a former British Conservative member of parliament and criminal barrister.
Born in Brighton, Lawrence was the only child of parents of Russian-Romanian Jewish descent.Alma Cogan, a successful singer of traditional pop music in the post-war period, was his cousin. Lawrence was educated at the former Brighton, Hove and Sussex Grammar School and is President of the School's Old Boys' Association. He read jurisprudence at Christ Church, Oxford, where he became president of Oxford University Progressive Jewish Society. From 1955-57, he did National Service in the RAF and served in Malta during the Suez Crisis.
He was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1962, Queen's Counsel in 1981, a Recorder of the Crown Court in 1985, a Bencher of the Inner Temple in 1991, and was knighted in 1992. He has defended in over 85 murder trials, and has appeared in a number of notable criminal trials, for example the Kray twins (gang-land murders), the serial killer Dennis Nilsen, Russell Bishop (Brighton Babes in the Wood murder), the Mountnessing silver bullion robbery, the Brink's-Mat gold bullion money-laundering, and a mass-murder war crimes trial at the Hague.
Lawrence, having twice unsuccessfully stood for the Peckham constituency in 1966 and 1970, was elected MP for Burton in February 1974. He held the seat until May 1997 when he lost to Labour's Janet Dean.
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