![]() ![]() ![]() Lawrence's progress as a billiards player came to the attention of the veteran player John Roberts Jr. By 27 January 1905, he had made eighty seven breaks of a hundred or over. By the age of 16, he had made more than twenty breaks over a hundred. ![]() By the time he was 15 Fred had made his first hundred break. įred started playing billiards at the age of 13, and his father was the manager of a billiard room at Birmingham during the time of the 1901 census. Fred's father then married Nellie Wybrow at Birmingham in the same year. Lawrence's mother Elizabeth died in 1899 at Birmingham. Lawrence was living with his parents and two siblings at Alfreton in Derbyshire when the 1891 census was taken. Lawrence was born in Birmingham on 18 June 1887, and was the oldest son of Frederick John Lawrence and his wife Elizabeth (maiden surname of Bristow). His full name was Frederick William Lawrence. Lawrence lost 13 - 16 to Joe Davis in the final of the 1928 World Snooker Championship. He won the Midland Counties Billiards Championship in 1920, and 1921. In 1919 he won a second-class professional billiards tournament at Thurston's Hall. Birmingham, Warwickshire, England įred Lawrence 18 June 1887 – 4 January 1964 was an English Billiards and snooker player. ![]()
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