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Lawrence was born in Rottenrow hospital in Glasgow but as he puts it ‘made in the Royal Navy’.
Lawrence tells us that he knew that early on academia at school wasn’t for him and one day at the age of 14 ‘my mum and dad took me through to Rosyth Navy days’ ‘and wandered around the ships and saw where they had been in the world and from that day that’s what I wanted'.
For the next 20 years, Lawrence served in the Navy spending time in many Navy bases and traveled the world, and progressed through to becoming Master at Arms. During these years he tells us he ‘was lucky enough to visit all sorts of places Hong Kong, Singapore, Middle East all over Europe’ and ‘had fantastic experiences. And remembers being on board HMS Intrepid during the Falklands conflict.
After 20 years’ service ‘I had a decision to make to come out and do something else or take my pension’ his concern at returning to civilian life was ‘sometimes service people are pigeonholed as what they may be as employees’. But wanted to prove to himself that he could make a success of civilian life.
Progress several years on and Lawrence has set up Azure a company involved in hospitality and tells us the story of pitching to Sir David Murray for the catering contract for Rangers FC and serving during match days responsible for coordinating an operation which consisted of 1500 staff. Before selling Lawrence and his team had expanded the business significantly with a turnover of £15m.
Lawrence is now the MD of the Good Coffee company a business he has built to enable him to also put ‘something back into the community.
Next year Lawrence has challenged himself to do Everest base camp.
When asked what his advice to the next generation he told us-
‘ I urge you to travel as far and as much as possible, work ridiculous shifts to save your money, go without the latest iPhone, throw yourself out of your comfort zone, find out how other people live, and realise that the world is a much bigger place than the town that you live in. And when you come home, home may still be the same and yes you may go back to the same old job but something in your mind will have changed but trust me that changes everything’.
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By IwasgonnaeLawrence was born in Rottenrow hospital in Glasgow but as he puts it ‘made in the Royal Navy’.
Lawrence tells us that he knew that early on academia at school wasn’t for him and one day at the age of 14 ‘my mum and dad took me through to Rosyth Navy days’ ‘and wandered around the ships and saw where they had been in the world and from that day that’s what I wanted'.
For the next 20 years, Lawrence served in the Navy spending time in many Navy bases and traveled the world, and progressed through to becoming Master at Arms. During these years he tells us he ‘was lucky enough to visit all sorts of places Hong Kong, Singapore, Middle East all over Europe’ and ‘had fantastic experiences. And remembers being on board HMS Intrepid during the Falklands conflict.
After 20 years’ service ‘I had a decision to make to come out and do something else or take my pension’ his concern at returning to civilian life was ‘sometimes service people are pigeonholed as what they may be as employees’. But wanted to prove to himself that he could make a success of civilian life.
Progress several years on and Lawrence has set up Azure a company involved in hospitality and tells us the story of pitching to Sir David Murray for the catering contract for Rangers FC and serving during match days responsible for coordinating an operation which consisted of 1500 staff. Before selling Lawrence and his team had expanded the business significantly with a turnover of £15m.
Lawrence is now the MD of the Good Coffee company a business he has built to enable him to also put ‘something back into the community.
Next year Lawrence has challenged himself to do Everest base camp.
When asked what his advice to the next generation he told us-
‘ I urge you to travel as far and as much as possible, work ridiculous shifts to save your money, go without the latest iPhone, throw yourself out of your comfort zone, find out how other people live, and realise that the world is a much bigger place than the town that you live in. And when you come home, home may still be the same and yes you may go back to the same old job but something in your mind will have changed but trust me that changes everything’.