Sir Oliver Leese

Reference

MCC/AAL/2/TEMP307

Date:

1968-09-26 - 1973-11-29

Level of description

file

Extent

4 folders

Part of

department correspondence and papers (MCC/AAL/2)

Scope and Content

Curator's correspondence (Stephen Green) and newspapers relating to Sir Oliver Leese, Chairman of the MCC Arts and Library Sub-Committee. Subjects include advice given to Green by Leese on acquisitions for the collection, notification to Leese of Denis Rons, MCC Museum Attendant's illness, a handwritten account by Leese of his trip to Namaqualand, arrangements for meetings of the Arts and Library Sub-Committee, requests for Green to join Leese to watch Test Matches at Lord's, decision by MCC Committee not to purchase Lawrence Toynbee's 'Stumped' painting in 1969, copy of the Polish newspaper 'Dziennik Polski I Dziennik Zolnierza' (The Polish Daily & Soldiers Daily) which included an picture of Leese at a reunion of war veterans, invitations for Green to visit parties hosted by the British Legion, discussion of a name change to the Imperial Cricket Memorial, budgets for the Arts and Library Sub-Committee, Leese's resignation as Chairman of the Arts and Library Sub-Committee.

Associations

Stephen Edgar Alexander Green
Sir Oliver William Hargreaves Leese
Denis Rons
Lawrence Toynbee

Subject

Memorial Gallery

Institution name

Marylebone Cricket Club

Conditions governing access

Open

Language

English, Polish

Size

4 folders

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