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Colonel Rowan Rait Kerr



Reference
MCC/SEC/3/50
Date:
1945-04-27 - 1951-01-04
Level of description
file
Extent
1 folder
Part of
Secretaries Papers (MCC/SEC/3)
Scope and Content
Correspondence, postcards, telegrams and calendars relating to Colonel Rowan Rait Kerr, MCC Secretary. Subjects include an application by Fred Titmus to join the ground staff at Lord's, correspondence and designs relating to the restoration of the memorial to W G Grace at Crystal Palace Cemetery, letters with the BBC regarding a broadcast talk on cricket, letter and report from Rait Kerr to General Sir Ronald Adam, President of MCC, regarding relations between MCC and the Press, tributes paid to Sir Timothy O'Brien and Stanley Christopherson following their deaths, letters with V M Merchant regarding his inability to join the Indian team to tour Australia in 1947-1948 due to medical problems, correspondence with Buckingham Palace apologising for an incident involving Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, arrangements for the MCC tour of West Indies in 1947-1948, correspondence with W J Edrich over his decision to leave the ground staff at Lord's, invitation for Rait Kerr to become an honorary member of Calcutta Cricket Club, arrangements to send a wool broker in Australia some willow bat cuttings after he had originally sent a letter to Winston Churchill, reports on MCC matches in the West Indies, ideas for a speech to be given by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh at a dinner for the New Zealand Cricket Council, advice given by Rait Kerr to Rawtenstall Cricket Club relating to their intentions to sue Keith Miller for breach of contract. The file also includes correspondence with Ronald Aird, Assistant Secretary.
Associations
Colonel Rowan Scrope Rait Kerr
Frederick John Titmus
General Sir Ronald Forbes Adam
Duke of Edinburgh Prince Philip
William John Edrich
BBC
William Gilbert Grace
Stanley Christopherson
Sir Timothy Carew O'Brien
Ronald Aird
Keith Ross Miller
Rawtenstall Cricket Club
William John Edrich
Vijaysingh Madhavji Merchant
Calcutta Cricket Club
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
New Zealand Cricket Council
Subject
press, royal visits, Marylebone Cricket Club Staff, memorials, broadcasting cricket, India in Australia 1947-1948, MCC in West Indies 1947-1948
Conditions governing access
Open
Language
English
Size
1 folder
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