{{Short description|English cricketer (1834–1878)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = | image = | country = England | fullname = Gilbert de Lacy Lacy | birth_date = 26 February 1834 | birth_place = Tring, Hertfordshire, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1878|6|7|1834|2|26}} | death_place = Mount Frere, Cape Colony | nickname = | family = | batting = Unknown | bowling = | role = | club1 = Marylebone Cricket Club | year1 = 1854 | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 2 | runs1 = 12 | bat avg1 = 12.00 | 100s/50s1 = –/– | top score1 = 4* | hidedeliveries = true | catches/stumpings1 = 1/– | date = 23 June | year = 2019 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/16732.html Cricinfo }}
'''Gilbert de Lacy Lacy''' (26 February 1834 – 7 June 1878) was an English first-class cricketer.
A member of the de Lacy family, Lacy was born to Charles de Lacy Lacy at Tring in February 1826. He was educated at Westminster School,<ref>{{cite book |title=Lusus Alteri Westmonasterienses Sive Prologi Et Epilogi |volume=1 |date=1867 |publisher=J.H. et J. Parker |page=117 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kCAsAAAAYAAJ |language=en}}</ref> before going up to Magdalen College, Oxford.<ref>{{cite book |title=Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886 |volume=3 |date=1888 |publisher=Parker and Company |page=808 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZaZAUWVWfqsC |language=en}}</ref> He made his debut in first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Oxford University at Oxford in 1854, following this up with a second first-class appearance for the Gentlemen of England against the Gentlemen of Kent in the same year at Canterbury.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/37/37157/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Gilbert Lacy |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-06-23 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> At some point after this he left England for Cape Colony, where he died at Mount Frere in June 1878.
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