[4] Their father, Sir Godfrey Yeatman Lagden, was an Englishman who had been Resident Commissioner in Basutoland, while their mother was a South African, the daughter of Henry Bousfield, the first Bishop of Pretoria.
[6] Making his first-class debut for the Cambridge University Cricket Club during the 1912 season,[7] Lagden went on to score two centuries during the year – 101 against Yorkshire and 132 against Hampshire.
[10] Towards the end of the season, in July, Lagden also played a single County Championship match for Surrey, appearing against Yorkshire at The Oval.
He remained involved in cricket, and in December 1926 played one final first-class match, captaining the "Europeans of the East" against a touring English team.
[15][16] In May 1937, Lagden was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), at which time he was a partner at McLeod Archived 27 November 2020 at the Wayback Machine & Co., a Calcutta tea firm.
In October 1944, while returning to Calcutta from England, the RAF plane in which Lagden was travelling overshot the runway at Karachi Airport, killing several of those on board in the subsequent explosion.