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Lieutenant colonel Hervey Major Lawrence DSO & Bar OBE (24 March 1881 – 17 September 1975) was an English officer in the British Army and an amateur cricketer. He played seven first-class cricket matches between 1899 and 1914. Lawrence served in the Boer War and in World War I when he commanded battalions in the Suffolk, Cheshire and Herefordshire Regiments. He won two Distinguished Service Orders and the Legion d'Honour during the war and was awarded an OBE in 1919. He died in 1975, the last remaining survivor of players who had played first-class county cricket before 1900.