The Chairman of the Company was Frederick Lawrence (ne Isaacs) knighted in 1963, politician and businessman. In 1914 he enlisted and fought with Allenby in the Middle East, entering Jerusalem as a dispatch rider. He went on to be Mayor of Paddington and was knighted in 1963. The Furniture Store was acquired for other purposes in 1974 when the firm must have been defunct. Lawrence died in 1981 |