2nd Baronet of Rothampsted, Hertford. He was an English rower, athlete and sculptor who exhibited twelve works at the Royal Academy, which he was a co-founder of, and later became its second president. He was the son of Sir John Lawes of Rothamsted. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he won the Colquhoun Sculls in 1862 and the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley Royal Regatta in 1863. He excelled in the university distance running events and received an athletics blue in 1864 for the mile at the Inter University sports, which he won again in 1865. He was a rowing blue in 1865 when he stroked the losing Cambridge crew in the Boat Race but was in the winning crew of the Ladies' Challenge Plate at Henley. He was beaten by Edward Michell in the Diamond Challenge Sculls in 1865, but won the Wingfield Sculls beating Walter Bradford Woodgate. In 1865 he was the Amateur Athletics Club champion for the mile. He decided to become a sculptor, and began his training in London under John Henry Foley RA. In 1869 he studied under Hugo Hagen in Berlin. He rented a studio in Chelsea, and in 1872 he exhibited his first work at the Royal Academy "Girl at the Stream". In 1878 he won an honourable mention at the Paris Universal Exhibition. Further exhibits at the Royal Academy were "Daphne" in 1880 and "The Panther" in 1881. In 1898, at age fifty-five, Lawes took up cycle racing and held the National Cycling Union amateur record for twenty-five miles, covering it in 51 minutes 15.8 seconds. In 1902, he helped judge the world's first major bodybuilding competition. Organized by strongman Eugen Sandow, the event was held in London's Royal Albert Hall, and was judged by Lawes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as Sandow himself.