Object number
TN.2009.2398
Title
Portrait of Martin Bladen, 7th Baron Hawke
Date
1961 - 1961
Creator
Production reason
Commissioned by MCC
Production notes
Copy of an original by Shirley Slocombe, 1903, in the possession of the Hawke family
Material
Size
87 x 76.5 cm
Description
Half length, three quarter turned, portrait of Lord Hawke. Wearing a dark green blazer and cap with embroidered white flower of Yorkshire Cricket Club.
Display caption
Portrait of Martin Bladen,
7th Baron Hawke, 1961
Herbert Holt (1891)
Oil on canvas
Half length, three quarter turned, portrait of Lord Hawke.
Wearing a dark green blazer and cap with embroidered
white flower of Yorkshire County Cricket Club.
A towering figure of cricket’s ‘Golden Age’, Lord Hawke
captained Cambridge, Yorkshire and England, was
President of MCC 1914 - 1918, Treasurer from 1932 -
1937 and Chairman of the England Selectors. A keen
organiser of tours, he led his own team overseas on six
tours during the 1890s. It was under Lord Hawke’s
leadership that Yorkshire established itself as the
leading first-class county. Captain of the county from
1883 to 1910 and President from 1897 to 1937, Hawke
was a keen proponent of the exclusive policy of solely
choosing players born in Yorkshire, despite having
himself been born near Gainsborough in Lincolnshire.
MCC Collection: Commission, 1961
TN.2009.2398
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