Henry Wallace Lawson (1865 – 12 January 1941) was a New Zealand

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er. He played

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for

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and

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between 1883 and 1898. An accurate right-arm medium-pace bowler, Lawson took 5 for 13 and 5 for 17 on his first-class debut for Wellington in

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in 1883–84, but still finished on the losing side to

by 39 runs. When Nelson visited

the next season he took 3 for 25 and 7 for 25, this time in the winning side. Earlier that season he had taken 5 for 68 and 6 for 70 in a drawn match against Auckland. He was less successful after he moved to Auckland in the early 1890s. Lawson married Margaret Short in 1888. They had one daughter. He died at his home in the Auckland suburb of

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in January 1941, aged 75.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lawson, Henry 1865 births 1941 deaths New Zealand cricketers Auckland cricketers Wellington cricketers Cricketers from Sydney Australian emigrants to New Zealand