seconds. Charles Lawes succeeded his father as 2nd Baronet on 31 August 1900. In 1902 he assumed for himself and his heirs by Royal Licence the additional surname (and arms) of Wittewronge. He was one of the founders of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1902 and became its second president. In 1901, Lawes helped judge the world's first major bodybuilding competition. Organized by the "Father of Bodybuilding", Eugen Sandow. The event was held in London's Royal Albert Hall, and was judged by Lawes, Sandow and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In 1906 Lawes-Wittewronge executed The Death of Dirce, a bronze sculptural group based on the Farnese Bull, a classical work depicting the same subject. This was followed by a colossal marble version, exhibited at the Franco-British Exhibition in 1908, at the same time as the bronze was being exhibited at the Royal Academy. The marble is now in the grounds at Rothamsted. In 1911, after the sculptor's death at age 68, a plaster version was exhibited at the International Fine Arts Exhibition in Rome. That same year his widow offered the bronze to the National Gallery of British Art (later the Tate Gallery). Too large to be satisfactorily displayed indoors, it was installed on the terrace to the left of the building's entrance, where it still stands. Family Charles Lawes married his first cousin Marie Amelie Rose "Amy" Fountaine on 8 April 1869 in St George's Church' Hanover Square, London, she was a daughter of Charles George & Rose Sarah Ravenshaw m 11 April 1848, St Marylebone, London. Sir Charles died on the 6 October 1911 aged 68, following an operation for appendicitis; he was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium, Golders Green, London - a memorial stands there to him & Amy. "Amy" (Marie) died 13 August 1928 in Westminster, London aged 79. Their only son John succeeded as the 3rd Baronet of Rothamsted in 1911 Works The Rowers of Vanity Fair/Lawes C B - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks at en.wikibooks.org See also List of Cambridge University Boat Race crews Notes References 1843 births 1911 deaths People educated at Eton College Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Cambridge University Boat Club rowers Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom English male rowers English sculptors English male sculptors 20th-century British sculptors 19th-century British sculptors 19th-century British male artists People from Teignmouth People from Harpenden