Alan King-Hamilton interviewed by David Rayvern Allen

Reference

MCC/AAL/3/186

Date:

2005-03-11

Level of description

item

Extent

1 CD: 53 minutes 29 seconds

Part of

David Rayvern Allen Audio Archive (MCC/AAL/3)

Scope and Content

1 CD, Alan King-Hamilton, barrister and judge, interviewed by David Rayvern Allen. The CD consists of 11 tracks.

Track 1: [0:00-0:19] Introduction by Rayvern Allen, [0:20-0:51] King-Hamilton talks about his love of cricket, [0:52-2:24] King-Hamilton talks about being a child during the First World War, [2:25-3:33] King-Hamilton talks about having an excellent long-term memory but a poor short-one, [3:34-4:32] King-Hamilton talks about going to Bishop Stortford Grammar School and playing for the 2nd IX at Cambridge University.

Track 2: [0:00-0:53] King-Hamilton talks about playing cricket at Cambridge University, [1:08-2:41] King-Hamilton talks about playing for a cricket club by his house in Hampstead, [2:42-3:32] King-Hamilton talks about when was his first visit to Lord's, [3:33-3:57] King-Hamilton talks about reaching 100 years old, [3:58-5:11] King-Hamilton talks about the Refreshers Cricket Team and shows Rayvern Allen a fixture list.

Track 3: [0:00-0:48] Rayvern Allen talks about Seymour de Lotbinere, [0:49-2:38] Rayvern Allen goes through the Refreshers Fixture, King-Hamilton talks about Tilford and knowing a man who passed away whilst on military service, [2:39-3:23] King-Hamilton talks about Refreshers fixture list and the Primary Club, [3:24-3:42] King-Hamilton talks about when he first started attending Lord's, [3:43-5:00] King-Hamilton talks about watching Jack Hobbs twice and names other players he watched.

Track 4: [0:00-1:28] King-Hamilton talks about Douglas Jardine's batting style, [1:29-2:24] King-Hamilton talks about watching Jack Hearne and Patsy Hendren, [2:25-3:47] King-Hamilton talks about Percy Fender, [3:48-5:17] King-Hamilton talks about trying to join the army in 1938.

Track 5: [0:00-4:52] King-Hamilton talks about working as a censor for the government at start of Second World War and joining the Royal Air Force.

Track 6: [0:00-2:42] King-Hamilton talks about being in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, [2:43-3:56] King-Hamilton talks about watching the wartime victory matches at Lord's and Keith Miller, [3:57-4:55] King-Hamilton and Rayvern Allen talk about Learie Constantine.

Track 7: [0:00-0:22] King-Hamilton and Rayvern Allen talk about Learie Constantine, [0:23-1:31] King-Hamilton talks about watching Denis Compton and Bill Edrich, [1:32-2:15] King-Hamilton talks about George Mann, [2:16-4:01] King-Hamilton talks about players being well behaved pre-Second World War and gentlemen and amateur players highlighting Percy Fender, [4:02-5:00] King-Hamilton talks about attending Test Matches and how they're now more intense.

Track 8: [0:00-0:29] King-Hamilton talks about how cricket teams used to be more friendly, [0:30-1:23] King-Hamilton talks about attending champion county matches and Duke of Norfolk matches at Arundel, [1:24-1:42] King-Hamilton talks about meeting Jim Swanton, [1:43-3:10] King-Hamilton talks about his views on current state of cricket and whether too many matches are played, [3:11-4:55] King-Hamilton talks about the Times used to being delivered, horse carriages and hansom cabs.

Track 9: [0:00-2:40] King-Hamilton talks the use of horses as transport in London during his childhood, [2:41-2:51] King-Hamilton loses his train of thought, [2:52-3:46] King-Hamilton talks about getting 2 post deliveries a day, the Times, [3:47-5:17] King-Hamilton talks about a legal pupil.

Track 10: [0:00-0:15] King-Hamilton talks about being a legal pupil, [0:16-2:07] King-Hamilton can't recall sitting on a cricket related case and Rayvern Allen tells a story of Sir Stuart McKinnon sitting on a case involving Bishan Bedi, [2:08-5:15] King-Hamilton talks about well-known trials he sat on.

Track 11: [0:00-0:31] King-Hamilton talks about the Gay News trial, [0:32-2:09] Rayvern Allen and King-Hamilton talks about capital punishment, [2:10-2:34] King-Hamilton talks about being proposed by Walter Monckton, [2:35-3:07] King-Hamilton talks about not playing against the Lords and Commons cricket team, [3:08-3:15] Closing remarks.





A back-up copy of this CD is included.

Associations

Alan King-Hamilton
David Rayvern Allen
Cambridge University
Seymour Joly de Lotbinière
Primary Club
Sir John Berry Hobbs
Douglas Robert Jardine
John William Hearne
Elias Henry Hendren
Percy George Herbert Fender
Keith Ross Miller
Learie Nicholas Constantine
Denis Charles Scott Compton
William John Edrich
Francis George Mann

Subject

World War, 1939-1945, World War, 1914-1918, Victory Tests, amateurs and professionals

Conditions governing access

Open

Language

English

Size

1 CD: 53 minutes 29 seconds

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