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Lawrence Wright (15 February 1888 – 19 May 1964) was a British popular music composer and publisher. He was born in Leicester and opened a music shop in the city in 1906. A short time later his first song, "Down By The Stream", was published, and by 1912 he had established the Lawrence Wright Music Co in Denmark Street, London.http://www.leicester.gov.uk/your-council--services/lc/growth-and-history/blueplaques/blueplaquespeople/lawrencewright</ref>
Wright went on to write (or co-write) over 600 songs under his own name and as Horatio Nicholls, including the World War I propaganda song "Are We Downhearted? No!", and would receive an Ivor Novello Award in 1962 for Outstanding Contribution to British Popular Music.http://www.donaldclarkemusicbox.com/encyclopedia/detail.php?s=3729</ref> He was one of the very rare composers of popular music in this period to make a substantial amount of money - it had not been unusual to see composers who had written dozens of hits die in poverty.

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by Nicholls, Horatio, 1888-1964
Melbourne : E.W. Cole by arrangement with The Lawrence Wright Music Co., London, c1923
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by Nicholls, Horatio, 1888-1964
London : Melbourne : Lawrence Wright Music Co. ; E.W. Cole, c1920
 
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