Clarice Lawrence.......1894 - 1968 Clarice was born in 1894 at Defoe Road, Stoke Newington, London, the only daughter to parents Robert, an author of 17 novels between 1899 and 1916 - writing under the pen-name of Robert Halifax - and Louise. She had one brother, Leo. Clarice was a PBX telephone operator in the city of London at the time when the Zeppelin raids were being made and on 9th March 1918 moved to Shrewsbury to escape them. She married Harold Sidney Lawrence, an engineer in 1917 while he was serving in the Royal Flying Corp. They had one son, David Lawrence, in 1927. In 1935 the couple built a bungalow on the seafront at Jaywick, Essex, and spent many week-ends there until 1946 Clarice was a voracious reader, especially biographies, reading late into the night. During WWII when the family lived at Watford, N.W. London, she owned a small gift shop near Bushey railway station. Harold and Clarice lived in many suburbs around London including Richmond, Surrey. They retired to Saltdean, Sussex and finally to Newhaven, Sussex.. Clarice Lawrence died in 1968

Clarice Lawrence and husband Harold Sidney Lawrence at Newhaven, Sussex.