Question: William Effingham Lawrence (1781–1841) was an English colonist to Australia, the son of Captain Effingham Lawrence, a merchant, Lawrence was an educated and refined man, an intimate of which English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism?

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William Pynchon
Lawrence-Jones baronets
Robert William Lawrence
William D. Lawrence Shipyard
W. E. Lawrence
Effingham Capron
Jeremy Bentham
William Effingham Lawrence
Gordon Howard, 5th Earl of Effingham

Effingham Lawrence (March 2, 1820 – December 9, 1878) was an American Politician known for holding the shortest term in congressional history, serving for just one day in the U.S. House of Representatives.
William Pynchon (October 11, 1590 – October 29, 1662) was an English colonist and fur trader in North America best known as the founder of Springfield, Massachusetts, USA.
 He was also a colonial treasurer, original patentee of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the iconoclastic author of the New World's first banned book.
 An original settler of Roxbury, Massachusetts, Pynchon became dissatisfied with that town's notoriously rocky soil and in 1635, led the initial settlement expedition to Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, where he found exceptionally fertile soil and a fine spot for conducting trade.
 In 1636, he returned to officially purchase its land, then known as "Agawam."
 In 1640, Springfield was officially renamed after Pynchon's home village, now a suburb of Chelmsford in Essex, England — due to Pynchon's grace following a dispute with Hartford, Connecticut's Captain John Mason over, essentially, whether to treat local natives as friends or enemies.
 (Pynchon was a man of peace and also very business-minded — thus he advocated for friendship with the region's natives.)
 Pynchon's stance led to Springfield aligning with the faraway government of the Massachusetts Bay Colony rather than the more geographically and ideologically compatible Connecticut Colony.
The Jones, later Lawrence-Jones Baronetcy, of Cranmer Hall in the County of Norfolk, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.
 It was created on 30 September 1831 for Major-General Sir John Jones, 1st Baronet, who had earlier fought with distinction in the Peninsular War.
 He married Catherine, daughter of Effingham Lawrence.
Robert William Lawrence (1807–1833), first-born son of William Effingham Lawrence, was born and educated in England.
 In 1825 he arrived in Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) (per the Elizabeth).
 He became acquainted with Sir William Jackson Hooker, the Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Glasgow and later director of the Botanical Gardens at Kew in London, from whose friendship he developed a passion as an amateur botanist, sending many specimens from the Colony to Kew, resulting in Hooker’s "Flora Tasmaniae" in 1860.
 Lawrence was Tasmania’s first botanist, and introduced Ronald Campbell Gunn to Hooker.
 The native fuchsia mountain correa was named by Hooker "Correa lawrenciana" in honour of his young protégé.
The William D. Lawrence Shipyard built vessels from 1859 until 1903 in Maitland, Nova Scotia.
 It is most renowned for building the "William D. Lawrence" in 1874, reported to be the largest wooden ship ever built in Canada and one of the largest in the world at the time.
 The merchant, shipbuilder and politician William Dawson Lawrence established the yard and built six vessels in it.
 His brothers Lockhart Lawrence and Thomas Lawrence both built vessels in the Shipyard as well as grandson Captain William Lawrence.
 The output of the Lawrence yard was relatively modest compared to other ship yards of the Bay of Fundy but Lawrence achieved distinction when he decided to build the "William D. Lawrence" as a tribute to shipbuilding in the province.
William Effingham Lawrence (August 22, 1896 – November 28, 1947) was an American actor of the silent era.
 He appeared in 120 films between 1912 and 1947.
 He was born in Brooklyn, New York and died in Hollywood, California.
Effingham Lawrence Capron (17911859) was a mill owner, and nationally recognized leader of the anti-slavery movement prior to the Civil War.
 He was known especially in the Northeast United States for his anti-slavery work.
 He was born in Pomfret, Connecticut in March 1791, and died in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1859 at the age of 68.
 He was also a noted manufacturer of cotton and woolens in the early American Industrial period.
Jeremy Bentham ( ; 15 February 1748 [O.S. 4 February 1747] – 6 June 1832) was an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism.
William Effingham Lawrence (1781–1841) was an English colonist to Australia, the son of Captain Effingham Lawrence, a merchant with houses in London, Liverpool and New York City.
 Previous generations of Lawrences had settled in the American colonies but returned to England after the War of Independence.
 Lawrence was an educated and refined man, an intimate of Jeremy Bentham, who was obliged to migrate to the colony of Van Diemen’s Land due to poor health.
 On his leaving England Bentham wrote to a friend in Rio de Janeiro: ‘Our excellent friend on his way to Australia is not without thoughts of touching at Rio de Janeiro: a worthier man, a more benevolent cosmopolite, never left any country; and very few better informed or more intelligent’.
Gordon Frederick Henry Charles Howard, 5th Earl of Effingham (18 May 1873 – 7 July 1946) was an English peer and member of the House of Lords.
 The son of Hon. Frederick Charles Howard and grandson of Henry Howard, 2nd Earl of Effingham, he inherited the earldom in 1927 from his cousin, Henry Howard, 4th Earl of Effingham.