(Dr Lawrence), a very learned English divine in the 16th century, who, during the persecution under queen Mary, retired with other Protestant refugees to Zurich. He returned on the accession of queen Elizabeth; and was made president of Magdalene college, Oxford, dean of Gloucester, and then dean of Winchester. He was a great and general scholar, an able linguist, and a deep divine; and published, 1. De religiosis conversatione et reformatione, deque primatu regum. 2. De ratione interpretandi audaces. 3. Optimae; sive de nobilitate, ejusque origine. 4. Sermons, and other works. He died in 1590.