Binder, MCC principal committee minutes [1990-1991]. Includes transcripts of annual general meetings, special general meetings, and ballot forms with lists of candidates for election to the membership of MCC.
Items include:
Decision by special advisory Sub-Committee to recommend that R E S Wyatt be appointed an Honorary Life Vice President, 12 June 1990
Transcript of the Annual General Meeting for 1990 which included the decision to appoint J J Warr as Trustee and David Hudd as Chairman of Finance and nominate Lord Griffiths as new president, 2 May 1990
Transcript of Special General Meeting to approve updated Rules of the Club, 2 May 1990
Decision by Lieutenant Colonel J R Stephenson to continue as secretary of MCC until 30 September 1993, 14 August 1990
Agreement to install turnstiles at Lord's as they were deemed an essential requirement by the Taylor Report of 1990, 14 August 1990
Discussion by committee of Rachael Heyhoe-Flint's application for MCC membership including a vote on whether ladies should be allowed on the membership waiting list, 24 October 1990
Decision to officially open the Compton and Edrich stands at the One Day International between England and West Indies on 27 May 1991 with D C S Compton officially opening the stands, the completion of which had been delayed, 24 October 1990
Agreement that P W G Parker should captain the MCC team to tour Namibia with R P Hodson as manager, 24 October 1990
Report on Test and County Cricket Board (TCCB) meeting held on 5-6 December 1990 which included the agreement to admit Durham County Cricket Club as a First-Class County from 1992 onwards, 12 December 1990
Acceptance by Queen Elizabeth II to attend Lord's for the Test Match between England and the West Indies, 12 December 1990
Draft of letter to all members from Lieutenant Colonel J R Stephenson concerning female members and whether lady members from MCC or Middlesex County Cricket Club should be allowed in the Pavilion, and asking members to vote on the issue, December 1990
Copy of fax from Simmons & Simmons solicitors to Lieutenant Colonel J R Stephenson, advising the secretary on the question of admitting Lady members and whether Lady members from MCC or Middlesex County Cricket Club should be allowed in the Pavilion, 11 December 1990
Announcement that C T Radley had been appointed as MCC Head Coach, 20 February 1991
Minutes of special committee meeting to elect John Major, Prime Minister, and J R Smith, Assistant Secretary (Administration), to full membership of the Club, 24 April 1991
Transcript of the Annual General Meeting for 1991 including further discussion of amending the Rules of the Club to include lady membership, including the vote which was against the resolution to admit ladies as members and elect ladies as honorary life members, 1 May 1991
Minutes of special general meeting to discuss changes to the Laws of Cricket to allow substitutes on the field but not as wicket-keepers, and to disallow bowlers being run out due to a ball rebounding onto the stumps from a fieldsman's helmet, both of which had been approved by the International Cricket Council (ICC) and were approved by the members present, 1 May 1991
Report that D G Clark and C H Palmer had accepted the invitation to become Honorary Life Vice Presidents, 11 June 1991
Decision by committee to send a message of congratulations to the United Cricket Board of South Africa on their formation, 11 June 1991
