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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.

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.

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.

References

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.

External links

• Finding aid to Patrick Anthony Lawlor letters at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
• "Pat Lawlor in a group of writers, c1935 (photo)". National Library. 1935.

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