Lawes
Americannoun
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Henry Harry, 1596–1662, English composer.
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Lewis E(dward), 1883–1947, U.S. penologist.
noun
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Henry. 1596–1662, English composer, noted for his music for Milton's masque Comus (1634) and for his settings of some of Robert Herrick's poems
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his brother, William . 1602–45, English composer, noted for his harmonically experimental instrumental music
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Courtney Lawes, a Northampton legend, has just returned to England, saying some aspects of his two-season spell with Brive were challenging.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
Will we see Courtney Lawes in an England shirt again?
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Queen Victoria was on the throne when Rothamsted Research's founders, Sir John Bennet Lawes and Joseph Henry Gilbert, began studying a field near Harpenden to find out how fertilisers and manure affected hay yields.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Lawes spent his club career with Northampton Saints, winning two Prem titles, before joining French side Brive in 2024.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2026
The prison’s most famous warden, Lewis Lawes, called his memoir Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing—the number referred to the sum of the length of sentences of all the inmates under his supervision.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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