Pat Lawlor (writer)

For other people named Patrick Lawlor, see Patrick Lawlor (disambiguation).

Lawlor in 1955

Patrick Anthony Lawlor OBE (12 February 1893 – 19 January 1979) was a New Zealand journalist, editor, bibliophile, writer and Catholic layman. He was born and died in Wellington, New Zealand.[1]

In 1958 he urged the restoration of Katherine Mansfield's birthplace; by then divided into two rundown flats, but now preserved as the Katherine Mansfield House and Garden.[2]

In the 1976 New Year Honours, Lawlor was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to literature and the community.[3]

  1. ^ Broughton, W. S. "Patrick Anthony Lawlor". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
  2. ^ Yska, Redmer (2017). A Strange Beautiful Excitement: Katherine Mansfield’s Wellington 1888-1903. Dunedin: Otago University Press. pp. 41, 43. ISBN 978-0-947522-54-4.
  3. ^ "No. 46778". The London Gazette (2nd supplement). 5 June 1964. p. 36.