Sir Francis Eden Lacey, William Findlay, Colonel Rowan Rait Kerr, Ronald Aird

Reference

MCC/SEC/3/7

Date:

1910-05-07 - 1954-09-14

Level of description

file

Extent

22 folders

Part of

Secretaries Papers (MCC/SEC/3)

Scope and Content

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, telegrams, newspaper cuttings, postcards, maps and invoices relating to Francis Lacey, William Findlay, Colonel Rowan Rait Kerr and Ronald Aird, MCC Secretaries. Subjects include ticketing and membership enquiries, applications to use the nets at Lord's Cricket Ground, speculative letters asking for employment at Lord's, requests for rulings on matches relating to the Laws of Cricket, accounts for 1924 of Oxford University Cricket Club, requests for fixture lists from the London and North Eastern Railway Company in 1925, copy of memorandum to all cricket clubs asking them to contribute to J W Hearne's Benefit in 1925, balance sheet for the MCC vs. North Yorkshire & South Durham Cricket League match in July 1925, report of the National Playing Fields Association for 1928-1929, minutes of meetings of the National Playing Fields Association in 1929, copies of the fortieth and forty-first annual report and accounts for the London Playing Fields Society in 1929 and 1930, minutes of meetings for the London Playing Fields Society in 1930 and 1931, annual report for 1929 for Northumberland County Cricket Club, press releases for the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, accounts for Northern Nomads Cricket Club in 1930, annual report of 1928-1929 and 1930-1931 for Mansergh Woodall Club, list of Indian Ruling Princes, Chiefs and certain Notables who could have visited England in 1932, prospectus of New Zealand Cricket Limited for 1930, copy of agreement for MCC's Telephone Exchange Installation in 1930, correspondence concerning the purchase of 8 Grove End Road by MCC from Harold Craxton in 1925 and the lease to be granted to Craxton by MCC, reports on the condition of 4 Grove End Road, rules for the Bath Club Cup in 1936-1937, minutes of the meeting of the Executive Committee of the Tennis & Rackets Association in 1939, draw for the MCC Tennis Handicap in 1953, receipts for the pension of P C Furness paid by MCC, report on the I Zingari vs. Royal Artillery Woolwich match in 1867. The file includes correspondence with N Haig, Secretary of Middlesex County Cricket Club and the annual report for Middlesex County Cricket Club for 1930.

Associations

Sir Francis Eden Lacey
William Findlay
Colonel Rowan Scrope Rait Kerr
Ronald Aird
Oxford University Cricket Club
London and North Eastern Railway
National Playing Fields Association
London Playing Fields Society
Northern Nomads Cricket Club
Mansergh Woodall Club
New Zealand Cricket Limited
I Zingari
Royal Artillery Woolwich
Thomas Harold Hunt Craxton
Nigel Esmé Haig
P C Furness

Subject

tickets, membership, laws of cricket, finance, tennis, Grove End Road, property, Olympic Games 1932

Conditions governing access

Open

Language

English

Size

22 folders

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