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Christopher
Lawford - Actor.
Career
Son of Peter Lawford the Actor and Pat Kennedy
Born 29th March 1955
Craig Lawford
- Football Player.
Played for Hull City.
Dean
Lawford - Rugby League
Player.
Played for Sheffield Eagles.
Capt E. H. "Bill" Lawford, A.F.C.
- Pilot.
Educated at Aldenham School, Herts. from 1897 to 1900
and then entered the family business of Lawford and Sons. He joined the
Territorial Army and became interested in the new science of aviation,
and experimented in aviation and worked with pioneer aircraft at Hendon
during 1909 and 1911. During 1912 and 1913, gaining his Royal Aero Club
Aviators Certificate No.442 on 13 March 1913 at Hendon.
He enlisted in October 1914 and served in
France with the B.E.F., where he was nicknamed "Bill",
returning to England in 1915 for flying training with the
RFC and was injured in a crash in October 1915. After
recovering and passing out as First Class Flyer No. 43 he
was posted to France flying on Artillery Observation and
Bombing operations from June 1916 to January 1917, and was
"mentioned in dispatches" He received a Commission in 1917
and was posted to the Test Flight at Farnborough. Following
the Armistice in November 1918 he was posted to No.2
Communications Squadron flying mails and VIP's between
London and Paris for the Peace Conference, and was awarded
the Air Force Cross.
After demobilisation he obtained U.K. 'B'
Licence and joined Aircraft Transport and Travel Ltd. as a
pilot and on 25th August 1919 flew the first flight of the
First Regular Sustained International Airline Service in the
in World from Hounslow Heath to LeBourget, Paris in a single
engined Airco 4A, carrying one passenger and freight.
Following the demise of A.T.&T. Ltd.
in 1921 he ceased flying, and in 1923 was appointed as an
Air Ministry Aerodrome Control Officer at Croydon, the then
Airport of London, where he remained until 1936 and was
involved in pioneering the early Air Traffic Control
procedures and "Q Code" and in 1936 was appointed Commandant
of Lympne Airport. Kent.
On 1st Sept 1939 he was sent to Jersey,
C.I. on secret War duties until evacuated back to England
just before Jersey was occupied in June 1940 and posted to
Gatwick as Air Ministry Officer.
Following wartime service at Barton
Airport, Mancherter and Whitchurch, Bristol, he retired in
1945 to Jersey, C.I., returning to live at Northwood Hills,
Middx. following the death of his sister Helen in 1950, and
to Bexhill-on Sea in 1951.
Herbert F.
Lawford - Tennis Player.
 Wimbledon
- Gentlemen's Singles Championship.
1880 Runner Up against Rev John
T. Hartley 6:0, 6:2, 2:6, 6:3.
1884 Runner Up against William Renshaw
6:0, 6:4, 9:7 (William Renshaw won the Gentlemen's
Singles Championship a record seven times).
1885 Runner Up against William Renshaw
7:5, 6:2, 4:6, 7:5.
1886 Runner Up against William Renshaw
6:0, 5:7, 6:3, 6:4.
1887 Winner against Ernest Renshaw
1:6, 6:3, 3:6, 6:4, 6:4 (brother to William
Renshaw).
1888 Runner Up against Ernest Renshaw
6:3, 7:5, 6:0.
Herbert Lawford reached the
Gentlemen's Single's Championship Final six times, the
same number of times as Rod Laver, Jimmy Connors,
Bjørn Børg and Pete Sampras and one more
time than John McEnroe.
Wimbledon - Gentlemen's Doubles
Championship.
1879 Winner with L. R. Erskine
against F. Durant and G. E. Tabor.
James Philip
Lawford - Author.
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