Born Lorenz Josef Heinrich Erich von Hayek on 15 July 1934 in
Vienna, Austria. He was brought up in Britain, where his father worked at the
London School of Economics, and was
naturalized, together with his sister, on 18 July 1938. During the war the LSE was evacuated to Cambridge, and Hayek was found a place at
King's College School, Cambridge, with the help of
John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946), his father's friend and fellow economist. He became GP and then pathologist at
Middlesex Hospital. He married Esca Drury, a nurse, in 1961, they had three children, Ann, Catherine and Crispin. In 1974 the family moved to Devon, where he was consultant microbiologist at
Torbay Hospital. He was a council member of the
Association of Clinical Pathologists and a member of the editorial board of the
Journal of Clinical Pathology. Laurence retired in 1999 yet spent much of his remaining years taking locums in other hospitals. He spent a good deal of his time promoting his father's work. He and Esca were keen
campanologists. Hayek died unexpectedly in 2004 in
Dartington,
Devon on the morning of his 70th birthday with his family with him. ==References==