Bound volume, MCC principal committee minutes [1962-1965]. Includes minutes of the finance & general purposes Sub-Committee meetings, minutes of financial policy Sub-Committee meetings, minutes of annual special advisory sub-committees to discuss nominations to the committee, reports on annual general meetings, reports on anniversary dinners and lists of elected members.
Items include:
Tributes paid to R Aird upon his retirement as secretary for the committee, 28 August 1962
Recommendation that the final of the Knock-Out Competition in 1963 should be held at Lord's, 10 October 1962
Suggestion of changing Law 14 so that a lead of 200 runs would require the other side to follow-on and to alter the system of points scoring in weather-affected County Championship matches, 10 October 1962
Minutes of meeting of special Sub-Committee to appoint Viscount Cobham as treasurer replacing H S Altham, 25 March 1963
Agreement by committee to show a letter to the manager of the West Indies team explaining that no-one other than the bowler is allowed to 'shine' the ball and that the use of hair-oil to do so was unfair, 1 May 1963
Minutes of meeting of sub-commitee to discuss the division of the finance and general purposes Sub-Committee, 10 July 1963
Decision not to take F S Trueman on the tour to East Africa and India, 11 July 1963
Proposal to introduce a new MCC dark blue cap for members, 21 August 1963
Announcement of M C Cowdrey and M J K Smith as captain and vice-captain for tour of India 1963-1964 and decision that president would speak to B R Knight and J G Binks regarding their conduct as they had behaved badly on previous tours, 21 August 1963
Report of withdrawal by M C Cowdrey from team to tour India and T W Graveney accepting an invitation to join the team, 22 October 1963
Minutes of meeting of Sub-Committee to discuss the rental agreement with Middlesex County Cricket Club, 14 November 1963
Recommendation by H S Altham that there should be a formation of a National Cricket Association and that representatives of the MCC and National Club Cricket Association should meet to discuss the issue, 18 December 1963
Minutes of meeting of Sub-Committee regarding a new contract to be made with Middlesex County Cricket Club, 8 January 1964
First meeting of the Financial Planning Sub-Committee, 31 December 1963
Report on first meeting of National Cricket Association to cover all aspects of cricket, 22 January 1964
Decision by Viscount Cobham to resign as treasurer, 26 February 1964
Report on 177th anniversary dinner held at the Long Room to commemorate the ground's 150th anniversary, 6 May 1964
Arrangements for the Test Match at Lord's between England and Australia including the planned visit of Queen Elizabeth II, 16 June 1964
Minutes of meeting of club facilities Sub-Committee, 28 July 1964
List of members elected in 1905 who became Honorary Life Members, 1 January 1965
Decision to write to the journalist E M Wellings concerning an incident during the recent tour of India in which Wellings had used offensive words and the committee believed he should apologise to the Indian Board of Control, 25 August 1964
Approval by committee that a match would be played between an England XI and a World XI in September 1965, 20 October 1964
Notification of first meeting of National Cricket Association, 16 December 1964
Minutes of special meeting of MCC committee to consider a recommendation that the Corner site be redeveloped and the Tavern / Clock Tower Block be re-built, 1 April 1965
Decision to write to Yorkshire County Cricket Club asking them what action they would take against F S Trueman who conducted a television interview which was in the opinion of the MCC 'detrimental to cricket', 21 April 1965
Decision to ask Surrey County Cricket Club what action they would take against E R Dexter who had written articles in 'The Observer', 21 April 1965, Response by Yorkshire County Cricket Club in which they proposed to take action against F S Trueman, 5 May 1965
Report on articles by F S Trueman published in 'The People' newspaper which were deemed by the committee to have caused offence to Bernard Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk and were detrimental to cricket, 15 June 1965
Decision by committee to issue a statement denying that anyone from the MCC instructed any of the First-Class umpires in 1963 not to call C C Griffith of the West Indies for throwing during the West Indies tour of 1963, 6 July 1965