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Reginald Bousfield Lagden OBE, MC (15 April 1893 – 20 October 1944) was a British businessman and sporting administrator in Calcutta. He was a double blue at the University of Cambridge, in cricket and field hockey, and went on to represent England in the latter sport, although his sporting career was interrupted by the First World War. After the war, Lagden settled in India, where he became prominent in Bengal business circles. He served as a president of the Calcutta Cricket and Football Club and the Cricket Association of Bengal, but died in a plane crash in 1944, aged 51.