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

Reference

MCC/SEC/3/5

Date:

1900-02-26 - 1952-04-09

Level of description

file

Extent

3 folders

Part of

Secretaries Papers (MCC/SEC/3)

Scope and Content

Correspondence, plans, photographs, newspaper cuttings and memoranda relating to Francis Lacey, William Findlay and Colonel Rowan Rait Kerr, MCC Secretaries. Subjects include statements of accounts for the Tennis and Rackets Courts, copy of a licence granted by London County Council enabling MCC to play music at the Lord's Hotel, letter from W G Grace to the editor of Cricket congratulating them on their 25th birthday, details of accounts settled by Middlesex County Cricket Club in respect of electricity, decision to expel a member who was imprisoned for fraud under Rule 26, letter to Viscount Hailsham by Findlay thanking him for his work at MCC, copy of an anonymous letter reporting the theft of items from Lord's, letter to Findlay from F Wright asking Findlay to meet him in private, membership enquiries, copies of letters sent to Arthur Haygarth regarding his volumes of 'Scores and Biographies' his health, letter sent by Lacey regarding Haygarth's death, insurance policies for MCC granted by The Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation Limited, photographs of W G Grace donated by Viscount Corvedale [Stanley Baldwin], plan of Lord's and surrounding areas by Anscombe and Ringland Solicitors, letter from Lord Harris to Findlay regarding Harris's illness, comments on selection for the MCC tour of Australia in 1932-1933.

Associations

Sir Francis Eden Lacey
William Findlay
London County Council
William Gilbert Grace
Arthur Haygarth
Colonel Rowan Scrope Rait Kerr
George Robert Canning Harris
Stanley Baldwin
The Ocean Accident & Guarantee Corporation Limited
Douglas McGarel Hogg
Middlesex County Cricket Club

Subject

insurance, membership, music, crime, controversies

Institution name

Marylebone Cricket Club

Conditions governing access

Open

Language

English

Size

3 folders

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