Background
His eldest brother Robert Street Lawrence, 3rd Baron Howth was born before 1435. If, as Elrington Ball, suggests Walter was the youngest of his parents" six sons this would suggest a birthdate around 1445.
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Walter Lawrence
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He held the offices of Attorney General for Ireland and Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer. He was one of the younger sons of Christopher Street Lawrence, 2nd Baron Howth and Anne Plunket. Walter"s nephew Nicholas Street Lawrence, 4th Baron Howth was one of the few among the Anglo-Irish nobility who did not support the claims of the pretender Lambert Simnel to be the rightful King of England, and after the defeat of Simnel"s cause at the Battle of Stoke in 1487, the family"s rewards included Walter"s appointment as Attorney General in 1491.
At the second landing of Perkin Warbeck, another pretender to the Crown, in Ireland in 1495, Walter played an active part in the defence of Dublin.
Again he received his reward: Ball suggests that his appointment as Chief Baron of the Exchequer the followings year was a personal choice by the King. He held that office until his death in 1504.
