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Ronald Aird



Reference
MCC/SEC/3/59
Date:
1952-01-06 - 1954-04-02
Level of description
file
Extent
2 folders
Part of
Secretaries Papers (MCC/SEC/3)
Scope and Content
Correspondence, telegrams, newspaper cuttings, maps and plans relating to Ronald Aird, MCC Secretary. Subjects include ticketing, membership enquiries, advice regarding the laws of cricket, autograph requests, enquiries concerning MCC team selection, letter from P Mericamp, President of Fédération Française d'Athlétisme [French Athletic Federation] enquiring about the machine used to drain water from the pitch at Lord's, Ordnance Survey map showing Lord's with sketch plans of sections of the ground, letter to Lindsay Hassett congratulating him on being chosen as Captain for the Australian team to tour England in 1953, letters and diagrams concerning a military survey taking place at Lord's in March 1952, letters to Len Hutton regarding the death of his mother and whether he could obtain FA Cup Final tickets, letter to C G Howard [secretary of Lancashire County Cricket Club] allowing him to write an article on the MCC tour to India [1951-1952] in The Cricketer. The file also includes correspondence answered by S C Griffith and J G Dunbar, assistant secretaries of MCC.
Associations
Ronald Aird
Stewart Cathie Griffith
James Garrett Dunbar
Sir Leonard Hutton
Cecil Geoffrey Howard
Arthur Lindsay Hassett
French Athletic Federation
The Cricketer
Subject
tickets, MCC in India 1951-1952, membership, Australia in England 1953, MCC teams, laws of cricket
Institution name
Marylebone Cricket Club
Conditions governing access
Open
Language
English, French
Size
2 folders
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