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Laurens County: a county in Georgia, USA; founded (or so Joyce thought) by the Dubliner Peter Sawyer on the river Oconee. Its motto: Doubling all the time. (cf. also Joyce's letter, 15 November 1926, to Harriet Shaw Weaver)

Saint Lawrence: the adopted name of Sir Amory Tristram, after the third-century martyr, whose feast day falls on 10 August, the supposed day of the Battle of Evora (in 1177 CE), in which Amory Tristram conquered Howth
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Saint Laurence O'Toole: the patron saint of Dublin (1128-1180), a contemporary of Amory Tristram; contrasted in FW with St Thomas à Becket

Saint Laurence of Canterbury: (died 3 February 619) was the second Archbishop of Canterbury
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Saint Lawrence: Spanish martyr and one of the seven deacons of Rome, where he was martyred in 258
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Laurence Sterne: (1713-1768) an Irish-born English novelist and an Anglican clergyman, author of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.
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Laurens County: there is also a Laurens County in South Carolina. Both counties are twins
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 ** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Lawrence_%28disambiguation%29 Other St Lawrences]
-* '''Laurence Sterne:''' the Irish-born author of ''The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy''
+* '''Laurence Sterne:''' (1713-1768) an Irish-born English novelist and an Anglican clergyman, author of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_and_Opinions_of_Tristram_Shandy%2C_Gentleman ''The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman''].
 ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0360&isize=XL Third Census of Finnegans Wake]
 ** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Sterne Wikipedia]