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Arthur Lawley, 6th Baron Wenlock, GCIE, KCMG (12 November 1860–14 June 1932) was Governor of Western Australia from 1901 to 1902. He also worked as lieutenant governor of Transvaal from 1902 to 1905. The Perth suburb of Mount Lawley is named after him. Lawley was a son of the 2nd Baron Wenlock (1818–1880) and he served with the 10th Hussars, rising to the rank of Captain. On 15 October 1885, he married Annie Cunard, a daughter of Sir Edward Cunard, 2nd Baronet and they had three children: Hon. Margaret Cecilia Lawley (d. 1969) Hon. Richard Edward Lawley (9 May 1887–4 September 1909), killed in India in a hunting accident. Hon. Ursula Mary Lawley (born 8 June 1888–16 October 1979) He succeeded as Baron Wenlock on the death of his elder brother, the 5th Baron, who died without male heirs (as did his other two elder brothers), on 14 June 1931. Lawley died exactly a year later in 1932 in Freiberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany and as he also did not have any male heirs, his title became extinct. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Lawley

He was a delegate to the Anglo-American Peace Centenary planning meeting in May 1913. See www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3277073448/ and NYT article cited there.

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I can't find any other photos of him, but this is probably the Charles Thomas Mills (1887-1915) who was a member of the British Parliament, for Uxbridge, from 1910 until 1915. Wikipedia stub. A bit of information Wikipedia lacks is that C.T. Mills was the grandson of Charles Henry Mills (1830-1898), 1st Baron Hillingdon, and the eldest son of Charles William Mills (1855-1919), 2nd Baron Hillingdon, and would have succeeded to the title had he not predeceased his father. His younger brother, Arthur Robert Mills (1891-1955) became 3rd Baron Hillingdon. The Mills family were partners in the banking firm Glyn, Mills & Co.

The NYT article on May 6, 1913 {{http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9404E7D91F3AE633A25755C0A9639C946296D6CF}} indicates that Neil Primrose M.P. [ www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/312112444/] and Charles Thomas Mills, M.P.[ seen here] were part of the British Committee involved in planning celebrations of 100 years of peace among English-speaking peoples. Also at the meeting were Andrew Carnegie and Lord Weardale. See www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3121126254/

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Thomas_Mills

Lord Weardale: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Stanhope,_1st_Baron_Weardale Andrew Carnegie: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_carnegie

The title "Lord Weardale" puts the photograph at 1907 or later when his Lordship was elevated to the House of Lords.

According to the Wikipedia article captainslack linked to: "A prominent opponent of war - including the Boer War - he was president of the sixth National Peace Conference in Leicester in 1910, led the British group in the Inter-Parliamentary Union, and became president of that organisation from 1912 to 1922. He was also president of the Save the Children Fund and a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. With Lord Curzon, he became in 1912 joint president of the National League for Opposing Woman Suffrage" The meeting with Andrew Carnegie was probably to do with his Inter-Parliamentary Union activities, which would have appealed to Carnegie in relation to the Carnegie Endowment. Perhaps it would have been in May 1913, when Weardale led a group from Britain and its colonies to a meeting in New York planning for celebrations of 100 years of peace among English-speaking peoples. See, for example, an NYT article on May 6, 1913 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9404E7D91F3AE633A... PEACE ENVOYS BEGIN CELEBRATION PLANS; Delegates from England and British Colonies Officially Welcomed by Gaynor.

The NYT article on May 6, 1913 {link above} indicates that Neil Primrose M.P. [ www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3121124446/]and Charles Thomas Mills, M.P.[ www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3121125698/ ] were part of the British Committee involved in planning celebrations of 100 years of peace among English-speaking peoples. Also at the meeting were Andrew Carnegie and Lord Weardale.

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