Sir John Lashawn

Sir John Lashawn (1838-1941) was one of the Founding Fathers of Lovia. He was born into a British family of noble background, in Jakarta (where his parents lived for four years). Nicknamed Good sir John and The Gentleman, John Lashawn was a very well educated and clever man.

Life
John Lashawn was an adventurous man, who wanted to be like Lord Byron in his younger years. Always longing for an impossible love, and impossible challenge or an impossible adventure, Lashawn was the embodiment of the classic Byronic hero. In 1858 he left his home in Bristol and moved to the United States. He purchased land and became a miner, a digger for gold. When he found his gold and made his fortune, John Lashawn purchased an even bigger piece of land and began a farm. He owned several hundred cows and was a wealthy man. In 1861, Good sir John married his childhood sweetheart Betty Davis, he met her in Bristol in 1853 and had her come all the way over to the United States, to California were he lived.

It was in the middle of the American civil war in 1863 that and John and Betty decided to leave the USA for Lovia.