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	In 1901 Wenlock was appointed a [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom\|Privy Counsellor]] and made a [[Lord of the Bedchamber]]<ref>{{London Gazette\|issue=27290\|page=1499\|date=1 March 1901}}</ref> to the new Prince of Wales (later [[George V]]).		In 1901 Wenlock was appointed a [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom\|Privy Counsellor]] and made a [[Lord of the Bedchamber]]<ref>{{London Gazette\|issue=27290\|page=1499\|date=1 March 1901}}</ref> to the new Prince of Wales (later [[George V]]).
	He was elected chairman of the [[East Riding of Yorkshire]] County Council in January 1902.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times \|~~articlename~~=Court Circular~~\|day_of_week=Tuesday~~ \|date=28 January 1902 \|~~page_number~~=7 \|issue=36676\| }}</ref> Wenlock held the position of [[List of Vice-Chamberlains to British royal consorts\|Vice Chamberlain]] to [[Mary of Teck\|Queen Mary]] from 1910 until his death.<ref name="Cokayne Gibbs 1959 p. 487">{{cite book \| last=Cokayne \| first=G.E. \| last2=Gibbs \| first2=V. \| title=The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom: extant, extinct, or dormant \| publisher=The St. Catherine press, ltd. \| series=The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom: Extant, Extinct, Or Dormant \| issue=v. 12, pt. 2 \| year=1959 \| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UwsMAQAAMAAJ\| page=487}}</ref>		He was elected chairman of the [[East Riding of Yorkshire]] County Council in January 1902.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times \|title=Court Circular\|date=28 January 1902 \|page=7 \|issue=36676}}</ref> Wenlock held the position of [[List of Vice-Chamberlains to British royal consorts\|Vice Chamberlain]] to [[Mary of Teck\|Queen Mary]] from 1910 until his death.<ref name="Cokayne Gibbs 1959 p. 487">{{cite book \| last=Cokayne \| first=G.E. \| last2=Gibbs \| first2=V. \| title=The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom: extant, extinct, or dormant \| publisher=The St. Catherine press, ltd. \| series=The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom: Extant, Extinct, Or Dormant \| issue=v. 12, pt. 2 \| year=1959 \| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UwsMAQAAMAAJ\| page=487}}</ref>

	Lord Wenlock was appointed [[Lieutenant-colonel (British Army)\|Lieutenant-Colonel]] of the [[East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry]] on 15 May 1902 and later became its [[Colonel#Colonel of the Regiment\|Honorary Colonel]].<ref>{{London Gazette \|issue=27437 \|date=27 May 1902 \|page=3463}}</ref> He also held the honorary colonelcies of several [[Volunteer Force (Great Britain)\|Volunteer]] units, including the [[2nd East Riding Artillery Volunteers]] (from 30 March 1880) and its successors in the [[Territorial Force]], the [[2nd East Riding Artillery Volunteers\|II Northumbrian Brigade, Royal Field Artillery]], whose drill hall at [[Anlaby Road, Hull]], was later named [[Wenlock Barracks]].<ref>''Army List''.</ref><ref>[https://www.geograph.org.uk/article/WW1-Great-War-Centenary---Drill-Halls/13#east-riding Hull at Great War Centenary Drill Halls.]</ref><ref>[http://www.drillhalls.org/Counties/Yorkshire/TownHull.htm Hull at Drill Hall Project.]</ref><ref name="Debrett">[https://archive.org/stream/debrettshouseo1881londuoft#page/132/mode/2up Debretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1881]</ref>		Lord Wenlock was appointed [[Lieutenant-colonel (British Army)\|Lieutenant-Colonel]] of the [[East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry]] on 15 May 1902 and later became its [[Colonel#Colonel of the Regiment\|Honorary Colonel]].<ref>{{London Gazette \|issue=27437 \|date=27 May 1902 \|page=3463}}</ref> He also held the honorary colonelcies of several [[Volunteer Force (Great Britain)\|Volunteer]] units, including the [[2nd East Riding Artillery Volunteers]] (from 30 March 1880) and its successors in the [[Territorial Force]], the [[2nd East Riding Artillery Volunteers\|II Northumbrian Brigade, Royal Field Artillery]], whose drill hall at [[Anlaby Road, Hull]], was later named [[Wenlock Barracks]].<ref>''Army List''.</ref><ref>[https://www.geograph.org.uk/article/WW1-Great-War-Centenary---Drill-Halls/13#east-riding Hull at Great War Centenary Drill Halls.]</ref><ref>[http://www.drillhalls.org/Counties/Yorkshire/TownHull.htm Hull at Drill Hall Project.]</ref><ref name="Debrett">[https://archive.org/stream/debrettshouseo1881londuoft#page/132/mode/2up Debretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1881]</ref>
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name = The Lord Wenlock
| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GCSI|GCIE|KCB|VD|PC}}
| image = Beilby Lawley, Vanity Fair, 1893-01-28.jpg
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| order1 = Governor of Madras
| term_start1 = 23 January 1891
| term_end1 = 18 March 1896
| predecessor1 = [[John Henry Garstin]] (acting)
| successor1 = [[Sir Arthur Elibank Havelock]]
| governor-general1 = [[Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne|The Marquess of Lansdowne]]<br />[[Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin|The Earl of Elgin]]
| constituency_MP2 = [[City of Chester (UK Parliament constituency)|Chester]]
| predecessor2 = [[John George Dodson]]
| successor2 = ''Constituency abolished''
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| monarch2 = [[Queen Victoria]]
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| birth_place = [[London]], England
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| death_place = [[Portland Place]], London, England
| nationality = British
| party = [[Conservative Party (United Kingdom)|Conservative Party]]
| alma_mater = [[Eton College]],<br />[[Cambridge University]]
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| spouse = Lady Constance Mary Lascelles (1882–1912)
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'''Beilby Lawley, 3rd Baron Wenlock''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|GCSI|GCIE|KCB|VD|PC}} (12 May 1849 – 15 January 1912) was a British soldier, [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] politician and colonial administrator who was the [[Governor of Madras]] from 1891 to 1896.

== Early life ==
Lawley was the son of [[Beilby Lawley, 2nd Baron Wenlock]] and his wife Lady Elizabeth Grosvenor, daughter of [[Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster]]. He was educated at [[Eton College]] and at [[Trinity College, Cambridge]].<ref>{{acad|id= LWLY867B|name=Lawley, Beilby}}</ref> He was commissioned into the [[Yorkshire Hussars]] in 1869, and rose to the rank of [[Captain (BARM)|Captain]].

== Political career ==
Wenlock was active in local affairs as a [[Justice of the Peace]] for the East and North Ridings of Yorkshire and as Chairman of [[East Riding County Council]]. At the [[1880 United Kingdom general election|1880 general election]] he was elected [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[City of Chester (UK Parliament constituency)|Chester]] but inherited his peerage later in the year and was elevated to the House of Lords.

== Governor of Madras ==
In 1890, Lawley was appointed Governor of Madras by the Conservative Party which came to power in the United Kingdom. Beilby Lawley served as the Governor of Madras from 23 January 1891 to 18 March 1896. Lawley laid the foundation stone for the [[Nilgiri Mountain Railway]] which was begun in August 1891 when he was Governor.<ref name="nmr">{{cite web|url=http://www.ooty.com/history.htm|title=History of Ooty}}</ref> During 1891–92, the northern districts of Madras Presidency were gripped by a terrible famine.<ref name="nytimes_starving">{{cite news|title=Starving to Death in Madras: Another terrible famine in some districts of India|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1891/08/07/103327328.pdf|date=7 August 1891|work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> The government's persistence in continuing grain export from the districts of Ganjam and Viazgapatm made the situation even worse.<ref name="ghose-380">{{Harvnb|Ghose|1982|p=380}}</ref> Lawley established the Board of Mohammedan Education in 1893. In 1895, Lawley laid the foundation stone for a solar observatory at [[Kodaikanal]].<ref name="kodaikanal_thehindu">{{cite news|title=Of astronomical significance|url=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/2001/05/31/stories/0431401x.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107183915/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/2001/05/31/stories/0431401x.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 November 2012|work=[[The Hindu]]|date=31 May 2001}}</ref> The Wenlock Ward of General Hospital, Madras was established in his memory. During his tenure Madras government acquired an hospital in [[Mangalore]] and renamed as [[Wenlock District Hospital]].

Lawley made significant enlargements to the [[Raj Bhavan, Kolkata|Government House]] (now Raj Bahvan), Madras. Lawley also laid the foundation stone of the [[Madras High Court]].<ref name="madrascourt">{{cite web|title=History of the Madras High Court|url=http://www.hcmadras.tn.nic.in/lawday.pdf|publisher=Madras High Court}}</ref><ref>[http://www.newindpress.com/sunday/colItems.asp?ID=SEC20020328080459 '''Restoring the old''' Article from NewIndPress news website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061126071824/http://www.newindpress.com/sunday/colItems.asp?ID=SEC20020328080459 |date=26 November 2006 }}</ref>

== Later life ==
In 1901 Wenlock was appointed a [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|Privy Counsellor]] and made a [[Lord of the Bedchamber]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27290|page=1499|date=1 March 1901}}</ref> to the new Prince of Wales (later [[George V]]).
He was elected chairman of the [[East Riding of Yorkshire]] County Council in January 1902.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |articlename=Court Circular|day_of_week=Tuesday |date=28 January 1902 |page_number=7 |issue=36676| }}</ref> Wenlock held the position of [[List of Vice-Chamberlains to British royal consorts|Vice Chamberlain]] to [[Mary of Teck|Queen Mary]] from 1910 until his death.<ref name="Cokayne Gibbs 1959 p. 487">{{cite book | last=Cokayne | first=G.E. | last2=Gibbs | first2=V. | title=The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom: extant, extinct, or dormant | publisher=The St. Catherine press, ltd. | series=The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom: Extant, Extinct, Or Dormant | issue=v. 12, pt. 2 | year=1959 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UwsMAQAAMAAJ| page=487}}</ref>

Lord Wenlock was appointed [[Lieutenant-colonel (British Army)|Lieutenant-Colonel]] of the [[East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry]] on 15 May 1902 and later became its [[Colonel#Colonel of the Regiment|Honorary Colonel]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27437 |date=27 May 1902 |page=3463}}</ref> He also held the honorary colonelcies of several [[Volunteer Force (Great Britain)|Volunteer]] units, including the [[2nd East Riding Artillery Volunteers]] (from 30 March 1880) and its successors in the [[Territorial Force]], the [[2nd East Riding Artillery Volunteers|II Northumbrian Brigade, Royal Field Artillery]], whose drill hall at [[Anlaby Road, Hull]], was later named [[Wenlock Barracks]].<ref>''Army List''.</ref><ref>[https://www.geograph.org.uk/article/WW1-Great-War-Centenary---Drill-Halls/13#east-riding Hull at Great War Centenary Drill Halls.]</ref><ref>[http://www.drillhalls.org/Counties/Yorkshire/TownHull.htm Hull at Drill Hall Project.]</ref><ref name="Debrett">[https://archive.org/stream/debrettshouseo1881londuoft#page/132/mode/2up Debretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1881]</ref>

== Family ==
In 1872 he married Lady [[Constance Mary Lascelles]], (1852–1932), daughter of the [[Henry Lascelles, 4th Earl of Harewood|4th Earl of Harewood]], by whom he had one daughter: Hon. Irene Constance Lawley (b. 1889). She married Colin Gurden Forbes-Adam of [[Skipwith]], Yorkshire.<ref name="peerage">{{cite web | url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p1326.htm#i13254 | title=thePeerage.com | accessdate=10 December 2006}}</ref> The Forbes-Adam family retain the Escrick estate which they now operate as a holiday and pleasure park.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/genesis/search/$-search-results.cfm?CCODE=2352 | title=Papers of the Forbes Adam/Thompson/Lawley Family of Escrick | accessdate=14 April 2007 | archive-date=30 September 2007 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930043419/http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/genesis/search/$-search-results.cfm?CCODE=2352 | url-status=dead }}</ref>

He was succeeded in the Barony by [[Richard Lawley, 4th Baron Wenlock|his brother Richard]].

== Honours and awards ==
Lord Wenlock received several British Orders and decorations:

* '''GCSI''': Knight Grand Commander of the [[Order of the Star of India]]
* '''GCIE''': Knight Grand Commander of the [[Order of the Indian Empire]]
* '''KCB''': Knight Commander of the [[Order of the Bath]] (civil division) – ''26 November 1901''<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27380 |page=8086 |date=26 November 1901}}</ref>
* '''VD''' : [[Volunteer Officers' Decoration]] – ''19 November 1901'' – for his contribution as Honorary Colonel of the 2nd East Riding of Yorkshire Volunteer Artillery (Western Division, [[Royal Garrison Artillery]])<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27378 |page=7471 |date=19 November 1901}}</ref>

== References ==
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*{{cite journal | last = Ghose | first = Ajit Kumar | title = Food Supply and Starvation: A Study of Famines with Reference to the Indian Subcontinent | year = 1982 | journal = Oxford Economic Papers |series=New Series | volume = 34 | issue = 2 | pages = 368–389| doi = 10.1093/oxfordjournals.oep.a041557 | pmid = 11620403 }}

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