Henry Lawson (cricketer)

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

He played first-class cricket for Auckland and Wellington between 1883 and 1898.

[1][2] An accurate right-arm medium-pace bowler, Lawson took 5 for 13 and 5 for 17 on his first-class debut for Wellington in Nelson in 1883–84, but still finished on the losing side to Nelson by 39 runs.

[3] When Nelson visited Wellington the next season he took 3 for 25 and 7 for 25, this time in the winning side.

[8] He died at his home in the Auckland suburb of Mount Eden in January 1941, aged 75.