Lawrence Washington (c. 1602 – c. January 1653) was a High Church rector of the Church of England. He was an ancestor of the Washington family of Virginia, being the paternal great-great-grandfather of George Washington, the first president of the United States.
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Lawrence Washington was born in England, circa 1602. He was the fifth son of Lawrence Washington (1565–1616) of Sulgrave Manor, Northamptonshire, who was the son and heir of Robert Washington (1544–1619), of Sulgrave by his first wife, Elizabeth Lyte; she was the daughter and heiress of Walter Lyte of Radway Grange, Warwickshire, and his wife Ursula Woodford. The younger Lawrence's mother was Margaret Butler (1568 – 16 March 1651), the eldest daughter and co-heiress of William Butler of Tyes Hall in Cuckfield, West Sussex, and Margaret Greeke, the daughter of Thomas Greeke, gentleman, of Palsters, Lancashire.
He had seven brothers: Robert, Sir John, Sir William, Richard, Thomas, Gregory and George; and nine sisters: Elizabeth, Joan, Margaret, Alice, Frances, Amy, Lucy, Barbara and Jane. His elder brother, Sir William Washington, married Anne Villiers, half-sister of James I's favourite, George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham.
Washington was a great-grandson of Lawrence Washington (c. 1500 – c. 1583) and his wife Amy Partiger (died 1564), and a great-great-grandson of John Washington (1478–1528) and his wife Margaret Kitson, the sister of Sir Thomas Kitson of Hengrave Hall in Suffolk.