Bound volume, MCC principal committee minutes [1944-1948]. Includes minutes of the finance & general purposes Sub-Committee meetings, list of receipts and payments, refreshment department balance sheets, memorandums, newspaper cuttings, annual reports, reports on annual general meetings and anniversary dinners, and minutes of the committee meetings that were renamed emergency committee meetings due to the Second World War.
Items include:
Memorandum on the laws of cricket for the consideration of the MCC Committee, including rearranging the Laws into a logical order, 1944
Alteration of MCC rules as part of the annual general meeting, 2 May 1945
Decision to expel P H Baker from the membership as his bank failed to honour a cheque cashed for him by MCC, 10 December 1945
Details of agreements made with British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for broadcasting in 1946, 1 May 1946
Special general meeting altering rules 2, 5, 6, and 23 of the club, 1 May 1946
Decision to grant Winston S Churchill and Dwight D Eisenhower Honorary Life Membership, 1 May 1946
Announcement by President Stanley Christopherson that General Sir Ronald Adam would be his successor, 1 May 1946
Notification by W R Hammond to the committee of his intention to retire from Test cricket, 10 February 1947
Report of special general meeting to approve the revised 1947 Code of the Laws of Cricket, 7 May 1947
Special general meeting of finance & general purposes Sub-Committee to discuss the Australian tour of 1946-1947, 25 June 1947
Memorandum outlining the financial agreements between MCC and Middlesex County Cricket Club prior to a debate on the issue, 12 June 1947
Report outlining scheme concerning consolidation of wages, 1947
Statement of receipts and payments, 1946-1947
Lists of members to be reinstated, 21 October 1947
Details of negotiations made with BBC to broadcast via television the Test Match against Australia in 1948, 12 January 1948
Announcement that Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh had accepted Honorary Life Membership of MCC, 5 May 1948
Copy of signed agreement between MCC and Middlesex County Cricket Club, relating to use of Lord's by Middlesex, 16 June 1948