Thomas Lawrence, 73, Computer Consultant  Published: December
18, 1990  Thomas Eldredge Lawrence, a computer consultant, died
on Friday at Youville Hospital in Cambridge, Mass. He was 73
years old and lived in Cambridge.  He died of heart disease, a
funeral home representative said.  Mr. Lawrence was most
recently a consultant to Adcole, a Boston company. Formerly he
was president of the New York subsidary of ICL, a British
computer manufacturing company known for many years as
International Computer Ltd.  During World War II he served at
the Radiation Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and afterward joined the Laboratory for Electronics,
a Boston subsidary of the British Tabulating Company. In 1958 he
moved to British Tabulating, which merged into ICL in the late
1960's.  Mr. Lawrence, a 1946 graduate of Harvard University,
retired from ICL in 1974 and became a consultant.  He is
survived by a son, Peter, of Boston; two daughters, Alida
Lawrence of Springfield, Mass., and Rebecca Hickman