Frederick Lawrence Rawson (27 July 1859 – 10 November 1923) was an English engineer, spiritual healer and footballer who played in the 1879 FA Cup final.

He represented the school XI in association matches in 1874–75[4] and 1875–76; he scored in a 5–0 hammering of Upton Park in October 1875,[5] and in a creditable 3–2 defeat to the Wanderers the following month.

[10] That appearance was a one-off, but he was a more regular player in 1877–78, and scored his first Cup goal in a 3–2 defeat to Oxford University at the third round stage at the Kennington Oval that season with a left-footed strike.

He only won one singles match, in the second round in 1888, after his opponent retired hurt (albeit Rawson was 2 sets to love up at the time); he lost in the quarter-final to William Taylor.

[17] Rawson was trained in engineering in Birkenhead, and developed a number of electronic devices, including those in relation to floodlighting sporting fields, electric omnibuses, and small lights to assist with medical operations.

[21] On his retirement from business, Rawson claimed to have developed a prayer technique, set out in a book, Life Understood from a Scientific & Religious Point of View and the Practical Method of Destroying Sin, Disease & Death, published in 1912.

He married Evelyn Trevelyan Cazalet in St Mary Abbott's in Kensington on 18 February 1890,[28] and the couple had two sons, Ronald and Wyatt.