Researching William Law

Born in Rochdale, Lancashire, England, Law was educated at Harrow School, where he played for the cricket eleven from 1868–70. He went up to Brasenose College, Oxford, and won his cricket blue in the four years from 1871 to 1874, captaining the team in 1874.

A right-handed batsman, he scored 501 runs in all first-class cricket at 10.65, with a top score of 39 against Cambridge University, and took 14 wickets, bowling right arm pace, at 25.21 with a best of 4 for 83 against Middlesex. He took seventeen catches in the field. His brother, George Law, played eleven games for MCC and Middlesex, while his brother in law, Herbert Hill, also played two matches for the MCC.

He entered the church and served in several Yorkshire and London parishes. He died in December 1892 in Rotherham, Yorkshire from pleurisy, aged 41. A new cricket pavilion was erected to his memory at Harrow cricket field in 1893.

He was born in Belfast, Ireland and came to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia in October 1847. Two years later, Law moved to Oxford, Massachusetts; he returned to Yarmouth in 1855. In 1854, he married Mary A. Brown. His firm, William Law and Company was involved in shipping and insurance. Law also served as a justice of the peace. He married Annie T. Gilman in 1900 after the death of his first wife. He was named to the province's Legislative Council in 1901 and served until his death later that year in Yarmouth.

Law, third son of the Hon. Lyman Law, and grandson of the Hon. Richard Law, was born in New London, Conn., September 11, 1803. His mother was Elizabeth, daughter of Amasa Learned.

He graduated from Yale College in 1822. He studied law with his father, in New London, and after his admission to the bar, in 1826, practiced there until 1830. He then retired from his profession, and in 1832 removed to Norwich, Conn., which he represented the same year in the Connecticut General Assembly. In 1868 he removed to New Haven, Conn., where he died, March 27, 1881, in his 78th year.

In February, 1829, he married Mary Lee, of Norwich, who died in October, 1839, leaving one daughter. In October, 1855, he married Harriet B. Mills, of Mississippi, who survived him with one son, a graduate of Yale in the class of 1878.