Wallace Lawler was born in Worcester, the son of Stephen and Elizabeth Lawler (née Taylor).Peter Joyce, Wallace Lawler in Brack et al. (eds.) Dictionary of Liberal Biography; Politico’s Publishing, 1998 p216 He was educated at St Paul's School, Worcester and privately at Malvern, Worcestershire. In 1943 he married Catherine Letitia Durcan. They had two sons and two daughters.Who was Who, OUP 2007
