title: Lawrence Addicks
text: # Lawrence Addicks
  
  Lawrence Addicks (March 3, 1878 - January 16, 1964) was president of the Electrochemical Society from 1915 to 1916. He was a member of the Naval Consulting Board during World War I starting in 1915.
  
  ## Biography
  
  He was born on March 3, 1878, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Charles H. Addicks and Mary Knox Buzby. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and graduated in 1889. He married Mary Maulsby O'Brien (1878-1964).
  
  He was president of the Electrochemical Society from 1915 to 1916. He was a member of the Naval Consulting Board during World War I starting in 1915.
  
  He died on January 16, 1964, in Maryland. He was buried in Christ Church Cemetery in Forest Hill, Maryland.
  
  