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History of the Lawrence Brown family

Max Lawrence-Brown was the eldest of the brothers followed by Stan and Geoff. In 1939 Max married Christina Magdalena Erasmus and they had 3 children - Pam, Howard and Diana.   Stan was without question not only one of the best professional hunters in East Africa but went on to train may of the famous hunters that followed, his son Micheal who later immigrated to Australia together with his sister Wendy and her husband Adrian. Micheal became a leading surgeon where he lives with his wife and 3 sons. until hunting was banned in Kenya when the company exchanged their guns for cameras and became an up market camping safari business using all their bush craft and knowledge to start a whole new industry in tourism. Stan passed away in 1979.   Geoff Lawrence-Brown became a professional photographer and hunter in Tanzania starting a company called The Serengeti Tours and Safaris. This was then bought out by the Tanzania Wildlife Department and Geoff became the first minister of Tourism and Wildlife. Geoff died at an early age of 45 with a punctured ulcer too far from help.
Howard Lawrence-Brown, together with my wife Sue and my son David continue in there footsteps and the family tradition.

Max Lawrence-Brown

   Stan Lawrence-Brown   Jeff Lawrence-Brown Howard & Sue Lawrence-Brown

Major George Lawrence-Brown, of the Royal Engineers, was born in Calcutta, India in 1884. In 1907 Grandpa George married Daisy Alice Anderson and 10 children were born. The family moved from India to British East Africa, later Kenya Colony and now the Republic of Kenya where he had been granted land by the British Government under the Soldier Settlement Scheme and in 1923 settled on a 364 acre farm planting coffee and tea. George died in 1927 of black water fever in Tororo.

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