Binder, MCC principal committee minutes [1978-1980]. Includes reports on annual general meetings, ballot forms of candidates for election and lists of elected members.
Items include:
Ballot form to vote on whether A F Roberts shall become a member, 20 June 1978
Acceptance by M C Cowdrey of an invitation to become an honorary life member of the club, 27 June 1978
Agreement that M C Cowdrey would take over as chairman of the Cricket Sub-Committee, 15 August 1978
Naming of MCC team to tour Bangladesh, 18 October 1978
Recommendation that a delegation from the International Cricket Conference (ICC) go to South Africa to look at multi-racial cricket, including the president and secretary of MCC, 14 December 1978
Announcement that Lieutenant Colonel J R Stephenson would replace J G Lofting as Assistant Secretary (Cricket), 2 May 1979
Announcement by president that Middlesex Committee had written to MCC to apologise for remarks made by J M Brearley which were 'against the standards set by MCC', 2 May 1979
Amendments to MCC rules regarding expulsion of members, 2 May 1979
Recommendation that Sir Leonard Hutton's 364 bat be returned to him, 15 May 1979
Agreement that MCC should regard the 1979-1980 series between England and Australia as a non-Ashes series due to developments concerning World Series Cricket, 17 July 1979
Record of a meeting held between members of the MCC and Test and County Cricket Board (TCCB) to discuss advertising and sponsorship at Lord's, September 1979
Copy of letter from P M Lush, manager of TCCB public relations and marketing to J A Bailey, secretary of MCC, proposing ideas for advertising signs for Prudential and Gillette to improve the sponsorship packages for the Prudential Trophy and Gillette Cup, 13 August 1979
Copy of letter from F G Mann, chairman of TCCB, to J G W Davies, treasurer of MCC, discussing negotiations with Gillette and Prudential, 15 August 1979
Copy of letter to all members of the MCC committee by J A Bailey, secretary, announcing that a special meeting of the committee will take place to discuss suggestions made by TCCB to agree to advertising requests, 13 September 1979
Copy of letter from Assistant Secretary (Administration) of MCC to P M Lush, manager of PR and Marketing Department for TCCB, informing him that the MCC will offer both Prudential and Gillette two single boxes and allocate 150 complimentary seats to Prudential and 200 to Gillette, 28 September 1979
Agreement between MCC committee that up to four advertising sites could be used by Gillette for the Gillette Cup Final, and that Prudential would be allowed one advertising site plus two prime sites at ground level, 24 September 1979
Special general meeting of MCC to agree on an increase of subscriptions to include value added tax (VAT), 17 October 1979
Special general meeting of MCC committee to consider the new code of Cricket, including specific discussion of changes to Laws 31, 32, 40 and 41, 21 November 1979
Agreement by MCC to support five Test Matches between England and Australia in 1981 rather than six, 21 November 1979
Agreement that the new Laws should be operative from 1 April 1980, 19 December 1979
Report of TCCB meeting including their view that Sri Lanka should not be awarded full membership [Test status] because of their cricketing ability, 19 December 1979
Report entitled 'Squash at Lord's' discussing developing the existing squash courts, c1979
Copy of report entitled 'Proposals for the organisation of cricket in the British Isles' by the TCCB recommending that there should be a Governing Body of Cricket called The Co-ordinating Council for Cricket in the British Isles made up of 15 members eight of whom represented TCCB, and that TCCB should be responsible for First-Class and Test Match cricket at home and abroad, 28 February 1980
The MCC committee's response to the report in which they thought that the voting system was 'unfair and dictatorial', 28 February 1980
Decision to make G O Allen a life vice president of the club, 16 April 1980