Bound volume, MCC principal committee minutes [1948-1954]. Includes minutes of the finance & general purposes Sub-Committee meetings, annual reports, reports on annual general meetings and anniversary dinners, newspaper cuttings and meetings of special advisory sub-committees.
Items include:
Decision to send £100 to the South Australian Cricket Association to the fund for the Bradman Testimonial Match, 8 November 1948
Minutes of a special Sub-Committee appointed to deal with the question of MCC secretarial organisation, including the proposal to appoint two assistant secretaries, a club superintendent and a curator, 12 November 1948, 11 January 1949, 31 January 1949
Appointment of J G Dunbar as assistant secretary, 14 February 1949
Nomination by president Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie that Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh would be his successor, 4 May 1949
Decision to elect ex-professionals as Honorary Cricket Members of the MCC, 14 July 1949
Decision not to offer an Honorary Life Membership to Pundit [Jawaharlal] Nehru, 1st Prime Minister of India, 12 July 1949
Minutes of special general meeting established to consider new Rule 11A to consider the election of Honorary Cricket Members, 14 July 1949
Report of special Sub-Committee appointed to consider the question of amateur's expenses, 13 July and 21 September 1949
Opposition from South African Cricket Association concerning the proposed visit of an unofficial team from Pakistan to play in England, 13 March 1950
Note on a special general meeting to discuss the club's property in relation to the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947
Nomination by President Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh that Sir P F Warner would be his successor, 3 May 1950
Announcement that King George VI would be attending the Test Match on 24 June 1950, 24 May 1950
Report entitled 'Appreciation of the Financial Position of the MCC', August 1950
Minutes of the emergency committee of the MCC committee to discuss amateur's allowances for the tour to Australia, 3 August 1950
Decision that MCC would pay Middlesex County Cricket Club medical expenses for D C S Compton, 17 October 1950
Minutes of a special meeting of the committee to discuss the report of the MCC Cricket Enquiry Committee including the establishment by the club of a charitable trust, 16 October 1950
Report of the special Sub-Committee appointed to report on the higher organisation of the MCC and draft resolutions of changes to the rules of the club, nd
Discussion on whether the England badge of three lions with the Royal Crown could be used on clothing other than the cap, 12 February 1951
Memorandum prepared by the secretary for the information of the MCC committee relating to MCC finances between 1946 and 1950
Report to the finance and general purposes Sub-Committee of the special committee appointed to examine and report on the financial affairs of the MCC in 1951
Nomination by president Sir P F Warner that William Findlay would be his successor, 2 May 1951
Letter to members explaining the financial problems faced by the MCC, 1 October 1951
Memorandum to members in regard to the proposals for implementing the report of the MCC Cricket Enquiry Committee with suggestions for cutting costs, 1 November 1951
Letter of instructions to Helbert Wagg & Co Ltd who were employed by MCC to report on the club's investments, 2 November 1951
Decision of R S Rait Kerr to resign as secretary, 6 December 1951
Signed copy of agreement between MCC and Middlesex County Cricket Club for use of facilities at Lord's Cricket Ground, 5 February 1952
Report of a meeting of the special press relations Sub-Committee to discuss how to deal with leaking information to the media and consider appointing a liaison officer, 14 February 1952
Confirmation that R S Rait Kerr would hand over his appointment as secretary to Ronald Aird as of 1 January 1953, 10 March 1952
Decision to call a meeting of Imperial Cricket Conference to consider the election of Pakistan to the conference at the next meeting in July 1952 after proposals from the Indian Board of Control and MCC, 10 March 1952
Report of an informal meeting held between members of the MCC and the Press, 25 March 1952
Minutes of the press relations Sub-Committee, 25 April 1952
Report of the special Sub-Committee appointed to consider applications for the post of assistant secretary of MCC which was given to S C Griffith, 25 July 1952
Agreement by the finance and general purpose Sub-Committee to change the name of Lord's Hotel to 'The Tavern', 10 November 1952
Minutes of the special Sub-Committee appointed to consider the question of the expenses incurred by MCC officials, 18 March 1953
Final arrangements for the opening of the Imperial Cricket Memorial, 9 April 1953
Minutes of a special Sub-Committee established to consider the distribution of rover and other tickets, 14 May 1953
Special Sub-Committee established to consider future elections of MCC candidates, 30 March 1954
Special Sub-commitee to consider the financial arrangements of a Canadian Team to tour Britain for which it was agreed the MCC would help with expenses, 18 May 1954
Appointment of R T Stanyforth as a trustee following death of William Findlay, 5 May 1954
Decision to make L Hutton captain for the MCC team to tour Australia, and to wait until a report had been received from Sir William Worsley and N W D Yardley before deciding whether F S Trueman would be involved in the Australian tour in 1954-5 following comments made by the captain and manager of the West Indies team, 31 May 1954
Minutes of the meeting of the special Sub-Committee appointed to consider the election of MCC candidates, 7 July 1954, 4 October 1954 and 21 December 1954
Refusal by MCC to accept T E Bailey's explanation concerning the contravention of the players' agreement for the tour to the West Indies in 1953-1954, 19 July 1954
Minutes of an emergency committee meeting to confirm that D C S Compton would travel to Australia for the 1954-1955 Ashes series subject to satisfactory medical reports, 27 August 1954
Report by secretary that a satisfactory medical report on Compton's knee had been received, 14 October 1954
Minutes of a meeting of the special Sub-Committee for financial arrangements for future MCC tours abroad, 16 November 1954