{{short description|English cricketer}} {{for|the Leicester Tigers rugby player|Percy Lawrie (rugby union)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2016}} {{Use British English|date=February 2016}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Percy Lawrie | image = | country = England | fullname = Percy Edward Lawrie | nickname = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1902|12|12|df=yes}} | birth_place = Kensington, London, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|1988|2|2|1902|12|12|df=yes}} | death_place = Teignmouth, Devon, England | heightft = | heightinch = | batting = Right-handed | bowling = | family = | club1 = Hampshire | year1 = 1921–1928 | club2 = Oxford University | year2 = 1922–1924 | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 33 | runs1 = 1,084 | bat avg1 = 21.25 | 100s/50s1 = 1/4 | top score1 = 107 | hidedeliveries = true | catches/stumpings1 = 13/– | date = 11 January | year = 2010 | source = http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/16224.html Cricinfo }}
'''Percy Edward Lawrie''' (12 December 1902 — 2 February 1988) was an English first-class cricketer.
==Education and first-class cricket== The son of Major-General Charles Lawrie,<ref>District intelligence. ''Grantham Journal''. 8 September 1928. p. 2</ref> he was born at Kensington in December 1902. He was educated at Eton College, where he played for the college cricket team.<ref name="OBIT">{{cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/228610.html|title=Wisden - Obituaries in 1988|publisher=ESPNcricinfo|accessdate=5 February 2023}}</ref> After success in the Eton v Harrow of 1921, Lawrie made his debut in first-class cricket for Hampshire against Glamorgan in the 1921 County Championship at Southampton.<ref name="FCM">{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6713/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Percy Lawrie|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=5 February 2023|url-access=subscription}}</ref> After leaving Eton, he matriculated to Balliol College, Oxford.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Balliol College Register|first=Sir Ivo D'Oyly|last=Elliott|date=1953|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|page=228|language=en}}</ref> He was a member of the Oxford University Cricket Club, but failed to initially gain a place in the Oxford team after failing in a trial match in 1922.<ref name="OBIT"/> However, a half century for Hampshire against Oxford University later that season secured him a further trial,<ref name="OBIT"/> with him making two first-class appearances for Oxford in 1922, against the Free Foresters and Lancashire. He featured for Hampshire during the summer holiday, making four first-class appearances in the 1922 County Championship.<ref name="FCM"/> The following year he made two further first-class appearances for Oxford, and did so once again in 1924.<ref name="FCM"/> Lawrie failed to gain a Blue during his studies at Oxford, largely in part due to a strong Oxford batting line-up limiting his first team appearances.<ref name="OBIT"/>
He continued to play first-class cricket for Hampshire until 1928, making a total of 28 appearances for the county.<ref name="FCM"/> Described by ''Wisden'' as a "particularly fine off-driver",<ref name="OBIT"/> he scored 959 runs for Hampshire at an average of 22.30; he made four half centuries and one century,<ref name="FCB">{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6713/f_Batting_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Percy Lawrie|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=5 February 2023|url-access=subscription}}</ref> which was a score of 107 against Leicestershire in 1923, which was made in under two hours and helped Hampshire to avoid defeat.<ref name="OBIT"/> For Oxford University, he scored 125 runs at an average of 15.62, with a highest score of 39.<ref name="FCB"/> Lawrie died in February 1988 at Teignmouth Hospital in Teignmouth, Devon.
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==External links== *{{cricinfo|id=16224}}
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