"The Daily Telegraph"  has a tribute Antony Lawrence.

"Although Lawrence flirted with television, he was first and foremost a radio, or, as he would have politely preferred, a wireless broadcaster. For two decades he was the voice of the BBC in the Far East, first in Singapore and then, definitively, in Hong Kong.
He was the least pushy or self-publicising of men and partly because of this he never achieved the fame of such colleagues as Alastair Cooke, yet he was as consummate a professional as any of his generation...

Even in his nineties he marched with hundreds of thousands in sweltering heat to protest against the post-British government’s attempts to introduce legislation limiting freedom of expression. He also spoke memorably — and as usual without notes — to a rapt audience at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club in order to explain why, despite his advanced age, he had finally decided to spend his final years in his beloved Hong Kong rather than the Britain of his birth and upbringing.
Anthony Lawrence was appointed OBE this year.""

David McKittrick obituary for Anthony may be found in "The Independent", here.


"When war broke out Lawrence joined up, becoming a captain in the Royal Artillery. At war's end he was assigned, due to his journalistic experience, to a unit instructing German journalists how to set up new, denazified, publications. During this work he fell for a young German girl, Irmgard Noll. Demobbed in 1946, he married her and spent an uneventful decade working as a sub-editor in a BBC newsroom before being offered the post of Far East correspondent."