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Three quarter length, frontal, seated portrait of Warner, sitting outside wearing cricket flannels, Harlequin’s cap of red, blue and gold and a dark blue flannel blazer in Lord Hawke's colours: yellow and Cambridge (pale) blue stripes. This portrait of Sir Pelham towards the close of his cricket career was painted partly from life (1949) and partly from a photograph by Vandyk in Wisden’s Almanack, 1921
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Pelham Warner, shown here wearing a Harlequin cap and blazer in Lord Hawke's colours of navy with Cambridge blue stripes, was painted retrospectively by British portraitist Katharine Lloyd.
Sir Pelham Warner captained MCC on its first overseas tour to Australia in 1903-1904. He later served the Club as a Committee Member, Deputy Secretary and President and, later, became the first Life Vice-President of the Club. His 26-year playing career included 15 Tests for England and culminated with captaining Middlesex to the County Championship in 1920. He founded 'The Cricketer' magazine in 1921, the archive of which resides with MCC.