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Colonel Rowan Rait Kerr, Ronald Aird



Reference
MCC/SEC/3/54
Date:
1951-01-05 - 1956-01-13
Level of description
file
Extent
1 folder
Part of
Secretaries Papers (MCC/SEC/3)
Scope and Content
Correspondence, telegrams and newspaper cuttings relating to Colonel Rowan Scrope Rait Kerr and Ronald Aird, secretaries of MCC. Subjects include ticketing and membership enquiries, letters proposing changes to the laws of cricket, correspondence with Trevor Bailey concerning his book 'Playing to win' which contravened the conditions of his visit to West Indies in 1954, attempts by C B Fry to encourage cricket in the USSR, remarks on the MCC tour to West Indies in 1953-1954 including the captaincy of Len Hutton, suggestion of Frank Woolley receiving a knighthood, telegram expressing displeasure at the decision not to include Fred Trueman in the MCC team [in 1954], correspondence with Don Bradman concerning his son John who had contracted polio, remarks on the MCC tour of Australia in 1950-1951, tributes paid to Norman Mann following his death, comments on Fred Trueman's language during a Navy vs. R.A.F. match in 1952.
Associations
Colonel Rowan Scrope Rait Kerr
Ronald Aird
Trevor Edward Bailey
Sir Leonard Hutton
Frank Edward Woolley
Sir Donald George Bradman
Norman Bertram Fleetwood Mann
Charles Burgess Fry
Subject
tickets, membership, MCC in West Indies 1953-1954, MCC in Australia 1950-1951
Conditions governing access
Open
Language
English
Size
1 folder
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