Descendants
Chapman had four daughters: Eva Jane Louisa (b. 1874); Rose Isabel (b. 1878); Florence Lina (b. 1880) and Mabel Cecele (b. 1881).
Chapman's eldest son Montagu Robert Lawrence (1885–1971) became a physician and was a medical missionary in China.
His second son T. E. Lawrence died childless in a motorcycle accident in 1935, while his third and fourth sons, William George Lawrence (1889–1915) and Frank Helier Lawrence (1893–1915) also died childless, during the First World War.
His fifth son, Arnold Walter Lawrence (1900–1991), married Barbara Thompson in 1925 and had one child, Jane Helen Thera Lawrence (1927–1977). In 1947, she married James Macdonald Cassels (1924–1994), who became Lyon Jones Professor of Physics in the University of Liverpool in 1960, and they had one son and one daughter.
Sarah Lawrence lived into her late nineties, dying in 1959, on the Yangtze River, China.
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