Copies of the MCC principal committee minutes [1959-1964]. Includes minutes of the finance & general purposes Sub-Committee meetings, report on the comparison of expenditure by MCC in 1949 and 1959 and index to subjects of the minutes.
Items include:
Approval of committee to send E R Dexter to Australia to play in Australian Tour of 1958-1959 because of injury to R Subba Row, 2 December 1958
Remarks on Australian Tour 1958-1959 including decision to send £100 to the team as their entertainment allowance of £200 had been used up and concern by the Assistant Manager over the expenses incurred by the team, 5 January 1959
Minutes of the MCC President’s Fund Committee, 5 January 1959
Confidential report by R Aird, MCC Secretary, on a lunch he and S C Griffith, Assistant Secretary, had with the sports editors of The Daily Express, The Daily Mail, The Times, The News Chronicle, The Daily Mirror, Reuters, The Daily Herald and The Daily Sketch, 7 May 1959
Minutes of a special meeting of the MCC to make K R Miller a member of the club, 19 June 1959
Reaction to enquiries from the press as to whether MCC should boycott South Africa because of apartheid, 4 April 1960
Decision to terminate J C Laker's honorary cricket membership of the MCC because of his book 'Over To Me' which criticised Surrey County Cricket Club, 26 May 1960 and 14 June 1960
Discussion by the committee of the bowling action of G Griffin in the MCC vs. South Africans match, 28 May 1960
Suggestion of the committee launching an enquiry into the status of First-Class cricket as many counties were in a poor financial state, 28 July 1960
Discussion by the committee of the president's meetings with Sir Donald Bradman and the question of 'calling' on bowlers with suspect actions, 23 August 1960
Decision to remove Major H J M Millican from the membership of the club, 13 October 1960
Election of A V Bedser as an honorary cricket member of the club, 12 January 1961
Resignation of Sir P F Warner as a trustee due to ill health, 9 February 1961
Report by Secretary that South Africa was no longer a member of the Imperial Cricket Conference as they had left the British Commonwealth, 6 April 1961
Appointment of D R W Silk as Assistant Secretary following the decision by R Aird to retire as Secretary, 6 April 1961
Decision by D R W Silk not to accept the Assistant Secretary post as he wished to continue working as a school master, 3 May 1961
Report by Secretary that Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh would be visiting Lord's on the first day of the Test match vs. Australia on 22 June 1961, 31 May 1961
Appointment of a Sub-Committee to consider the appointment of an Assistant Secretary to replace S C Griffith who had been appointed Secretary from 1 October 1962, 31 May 1961
Decision to allow South Africa to attend the meeting of the Imperial Cricket Conference in 1961 as 'observers', 31 May 1961
Decision to replace the injured J T Murray with J G Binks for the tour to India, Pakistan and Ceylon 1961-1962, 11 January 1962
Report by president on the MCC tour of India, Pakistan and Ceylon, 15 February 1962
Tributes paid to R Aird upon his retirement as Secretary, 28 August 1962
Arrangements for the MCC tour to Australia and New Zealand in 1962-1963, 10 October 1962
Recommendation that the final of the Knock-Out Competition in 1963 should be held at Lord's, 10 October 1962
Suggestion of changing Law 14 so that a lead of 200 runs would require the other side to follow-on and to alter the system of points scoring in weather-affected County Championship matches, 10 October 1962
Decision not to take F S Trueman on the tour to India in 1963, 11 July 1963
Proposal to introduce a new MCC dark blue cap for members, 21 August 1963
Announcement of M C Cowdrey and M J K Smith as captain and vice-captain for tour of India 1963-1964 and decision that president would speak to B R Knight and J G Binks regarding their conduct as they had behaved badly on previous tours, 21 August 1963
Report of withdrawal by M C Cowdrey from team to tour India and T W Graveney accepting an invitation to join the team, 22 October 1963
Decision to regulate to control of the sale of clothing in MCC colours, 26 November 1963
Recommendation by H S Altham that there should be a formation of a National Cricket Association and that representatives of the MCC and National Club Cricket Association should meet to discuss the issue, 18 December 1963