 His fourth and final game saw Lawrence retain the captaincy for the 1875 encounter with Scotland.In 1876 he married Constance Charlotte Davies (died 1929), daughter of the Reverend George Davies, Rector of Kelsale in Suffolk.They had three sons, John Dalhousie (born 1887), Malcolm Eyton (born 1889), and Christopher Hal (born 1893), and three daughters, Constance Letitia (1881 - 1946), Phyllis May (1882 - 1956), and Mary Paolina (1886 - 1963).