Colonel Rowan Rait Kerr, Ronald Aird

Reference

MCC/SEC/3/58

Date:

1951-12-31 - 1953-12-16

Level of description

file

Extent

2 folders

Part of

Secretaries Papers (MCC/SEC/3)

Scope and Content

Correspondence and telegrams relating to Ronald Aird and Colonel Rowan Scrope Rait Kerr, MCC Secretaries. Subjects include enquiries as to whether the Prime Minister [Winston Churchill] is a keen cricketer and attendee at Lord's, letters, pamphlets and accounts from Girls Training Corps asking for subscriptions from MCC, ticketing, membership and cricketing enquiries, congratulations on England retaining the Ashes, requests for a cricket ball to be engraved to commemorate A R Duff taking 8 wickets for 22 runs at Lord's on 25 August 1953, R Tattersall and R G Marler for their performance in the Gentlemen vs. Players match in 1953, and D J Hubert for taking 12 wickets in the Eton vs. Harrow match in 1952, consideration of commissioning medals to the England team should they win the Ashes in 1953, booklet advertising 25 Grove End Road, St. John's Wood, refusal of request by Mrs M Gale to become a member, requests to stop playing the Gentlemen vs. Players fixture as it is 'idiotic' and 'nonsensical'.

Associations

Ronald Aird
Stewart Cathie Griffith
Colonel Rowan Scrope Rait Kerr
Alan Robert Duff
Roy Tattersall
Robin Geoffrey Marlar
Girls Training Corps
D J Hubert
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Subject

Australia in England 1953, Grove End Road, Lady Membership, tickets, membership, Gentlemen vs. Players, Eton vs Harrow, Ashes series

Institution name

Marylebone Cricket Club

Conditions governing access

Open

Language

English

Size

2 folders

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• Secretaries Papers (MCC/SEC/3)
  
  • Colonel Rowan Rait Kerr, Ronald Aird (MCC/SEC/3/58)
    • Letter, Madeline Gale to Ronald Aird (MCC/SEC/3/58/1)
    • Letter, Ronald Aird to Madeline Gale (MCC/SEC/3/58/2)