- ReferenceMCC/SEC/3/49
- TitleSir Pelham Francis Warner, Deputy Secretary
- Date1942-06-07 - 1946-11-15
- Level of descriptionfile
- Extent1 folder
- Part of
- Scope and ContentCorrespondence, telegrams, newspaper cuttings, photographs, scorecards relating to Pelham Francis Warner, Deputy Secretary of MCC. Subjects include a copy of the memorandum by the Club Cricket Conference responding to the plan by London County Council to reconstruct post-war London, letter to Clement Attlee, Prime Minister, inviting him to the England vs. Australia match at Lord's in 1945, correspondence with Encyclopedia Britannica asking them to allow H S Altham to write the book's article on cricket, invitations for a England XI to play the West Indies in June 1945, copies of scorecards from the Northumberland vs. Durham match, 21 May 1945, selection of Field Marshal Alexander's Armed Forces team to play a match against MCC at Lord's in 1945, correspondence with Sport & General Press Agency Limited allowing MCC sole rights of a photograph of the Father Time weather vane. The file also includes correspondence made with the secretary of Middlesex County Cricket Club.
- AssociationsSir Pelham Francis Warner
Club Cricket Conference
London County Council
Inc. Encyclopaedia Britannica
Northumberland County Cricket Club
Durham County Cricket Club
Harold Alexander, First Earl Alexander of Tunis
Sport and General Press Agency Ltd
Middlesex County Cricket Club
Clement Richard Attlee, First Earl Attlee - Subject
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