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{{Infobox cricketer
|                name = Henry Anderson
|               image = 
|             country = India
|           full_name = Henry Lawrence Anderson
|          birth_date = {{Birth date|1867|06|02|df=y}}
|         birth_place = [[Lucknow]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], British India
|          death_date = {{Death date and age|1914|10|29|1867|06|02|df=y}}
|         death_place = near [[La Gorgue]], [[Nord (French department)|Nord]], France
|               club1 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]
|               year1 = 1892–95
|             columns = 1
|             column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
|            matches1 = 2
|               runs1 = 11
|            bat avg1 = 5.50
|           100s/50s1 = –/–
|          top score1 = 5
|         deliveries1 = 40
|            wickets1 = 1
|           bowl avg1 = 40.00
|            fivefor1 = –
|             tenfor1 = –
|       best bowling1 = 1/13
|  catches/stumpings1 = 2/0
|                date = 2 August
|                year = 2020
|              source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/player/26408.html Cricinfo
}}
'''Henry Lawrence Anderson''' (2 June 1867 – 29 October 1914) was an Indian [[First-class cricket|first-class]] cricketer and [[British Indian Army]] officer.

==Life and military career==
Born in [[Lucknow]] in 1867, Anderson was educated at [[Dulwich College]].<ref name="McCrery">{{Cite book |last=McCrery |first=Nigel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q3BhCgAAQBAJ |title=Final Wicket: Test and First Class Cricketers Killed in the Great War |publisher=Pen & Sword |year=2015 |isbn=978-1-47382-714-1 |location=Barnsley |pages=43–44 |author-link=Nigel McCrery}}</ref> Appointed in the [[King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry]] in August 1888, he was stationed in [[British India]] by January 1890, as he appeared in an amateur cricket match for [[Bombay Gymkhana]] in that month.<ref name="McCrery" /><ref name="CricketArchive1">{{Cite web |title=Bombay Gymkhana v GF Vernon's XI in 1889/90|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/134/134872.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=2 August 2020 |publisher=CricketArchive}}</ref> Anderson was promoted to [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] on 26 March 1890 and the following month transferred to the [[Indian Staff Corps]].<ref name="McCrery" /><ref name="LondonGazette1">{{London Gazette| issue = 26214| date = 1891-10-16| page = 5407}}</ref> He appeared in a second amateur match in December 1892 for [[Poona]] Gymkhana against Lord Hawke's XI during [[Lord Hawke's XI cricket team in Ceylon and India in 1892–93|their tour of Ceylon and India in 1892-93]].<ref name="CricketArchive2">{{Cite web |title=Poona Gymkhana v Lord Hawke's XI in 1892/93|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/134/134955.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=2 August 2020 |publisher=CricketArchive}}</ref>

Anderson played in two first-class matches for [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]] between 1892 and 1895, both of which were against [[Parsees cricket team|Parsees]].<ref name="CricketArchive3">{{Cite web |title=First-Class Matches played by Henry Anderson |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/12/12624/First-Class_Matches.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=2 August 2020 |publisher=CricketArchive}}</ref> In his debut between 19–21 September 1892 at the [[Poona Gymkhana Ground]], Anderson scored 10 runs in his first innings and 1 in his second.<ref name="CricketArchive4">{{Cite web |title=Europeans v Parsees in 1892/93 |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/134/134955.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=2 August 2020 |publisher=CricketArchive}}</ref> He also caught [[DE Modi]] off the bowling of [[Harry Lowis]].<ref name="CricketArchive4" /> Anderson's second match took place at the Gymkhana Ground between 23–24 August 1895, during which he gained a [[Wicket (cricket)|wicket]].<ref name="CricketArchive5">{{Cite web |title=Europeans v Parsees in 1895/96 |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/4/4444.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=2 August 2020 |publisher=CricketArchive}}</ref>

Anderson was promoted once more to [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] on 22 August 1899 and saw active service in [[British expedition to Tibet|Tibet]] between 1903–1904.<ref name="McCrery" /><ref name="LondonGazette2">{{London Gazette| issue = 27127| date = 1899-10-17| page = 6266}}</ref> On 22 August 1906, he was promoted to [[Major (United Kingdom)|major]].<ref name="LondonGazette3">{{London Gazette| issue = 27967| date = 1906-11-13| page = 7632}}</ref> At the outbreak of the [[First World War]] in August 1914, Anderson was promoted to [[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|lieutenant-colonel]] and became the second-command of the [[9th Bhopal Infantry]].<ref name="McCrery" /><ref name="LondonGazette4">{{London Gazette| issue = 28957| date = 1914-10-30| page = 8777}}</ref> The battalion was deployed to France, where Anderson was [[killed in action]] on 29 October 1914 by a shell near [[La Gorgue]].<ref name="McCrery" /> He was buried at Pont-du-Hem Military Cemetery, La Gorgue.<ref name="CWGC">{{CWGC|id=596614|name=Henry Lawrence Anderson|access-date=2 August 2020}}</ref>

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[[Category:1867 births]]
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[[Category:Cricketers from Lucknow]]
[[Category:Indian cricketers]]
[[Category:Europeans cricketers]]
[[Category:People educated at Dulwich College]]
[[Category:King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry officers]]
[[Category:Indian Staff Corps officers]]
[[Category:Indian Army personnel killed in World War I]]
[[Category:Military personnel of British India]]