Julia Townsend Lawrence was the daughter of Edward Arthur Lawrence and Hannah Mickle. After the death of her first husband, Robert Lyon Burnett, she married Constantine Scaramanga-Ralli, who had been born Constantine Ralli but adopted the surname Scaramanga-Ralli. He spent many years in banking, was an advocate of compulsory military training, and contributed articles on military and related topics to leading journals. He was a Life Governor of the Brompton Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, a Justice of the Peace in Hampshire, and Vice-President of the Allotments and Small Holdings Association of England. He also published a work of speculative fiction, Vanessa: A Romance of the New Century and the New World (1904), set in a near-future New York under oligarchic rule.