- ReferenceGHC
- TitleGerald Howat Collection
- Date1933 - 1999
- Level of descriptionfonds
- Extent0.015 cubic metres
- Scope and ContentCorrespondence, ration books, reports, photographs, newspaper cuttings, articles on cricket written by Howat including Bodyline and Pelham Warner, Gentlemen of Philadelphia, First Test Match between India and England in 1932, cricket in the United States, Thomas Hughes author of Tom Brown's schooldays, photocopies of articles, correspondence from the CC Morris Cricket Library, correspondence sent to Pelham Warner acquired by Howat, records relating to the Reverend Jack Parsons, requests for information about Pelham Warner, copies of captain's reports for the MCC tour of Australia in 1954-1955 and West Indies in 1953-1954, letters addressed to Pelham Warner and Len Hutton. Photographs include Pelham Warner with his son and grandson at Lord's for the Eton vs. Harrow match in 1946, photograph of Fred Price, Ted Roberts, Leslie and Dennis Compton receiving military training during the Second World War.
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- Subject
- Institution nameMarylebone Cricket Club
- Conditions governing accessRecords under 30 years old are closed to the public, records between 30 and 40 years require permission from the Club Secretary before access. All other records are open.
- LanguageEnglish
- HistoryGerald Malcolm David Howat was born on 12 June 1928 in Glasgow. He was educated at Glenalmond, and at Edinburgh and Oxford Universities. He married Anne Murdoch in 1951 and had two sons and one daughter. He taught at Trinidad Leaseholds School in the West Indies; at Kelly College, Tavistock; and then in Oxfordshire, at Culham College, Radley and Lord William’s Thame. Also, he was general editor of the historical division of Pergamon Press. Howat’s major passion was cricket; he served Moreton cricket club for over 40 years and became the biographer of Learie Constantine, Pelham Warner, Wally Hammond and Len Hutton. Howat served on the MCC Arts and Library Sub-Committee and was chair of the Publishing Working Party, also covering cricket matches as a reporter for The Cricketer and The Telegraph. The records largely relate to information used to write some of Howat’s biographies, such as Len Hutton and Pelham Warner, and correspondence sent to them is included in this collection, as well as articles on American cricket and documents relating to Jack Parsons.
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