Gubby Allen
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Sir George Oswald Browning "Gubby" Allen CBE was a cricketer who captained England in eleven Test matches. In first-class matches, he played for Middlesex and Cambridge University. A fast bowler and hard-hitting lower-order batsman, Allen later became an influential cricket administrator who held key positions in the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), which effectively ruled English cricket at the time; he also served as chairman of the England selectors.
Allen, photographed c. 1933
A team photograph of England's 1932–33 side: Allen is seated second from the right on the front row. Douglas Jardine is in the centre of the front row and Pelham Warner is on the extreme left.
Allen c. 1935
Allen bowling to Stan McCabe during the first Test of the 1936–37 Ashes
Marylebone Cricket Club
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Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) is a cricket club founded in 1787 and based since 1814 at Lord's Cricket Ground, which it owns, in St John's Wood, London. The club, formerly the governing body of cricket, retains considerable global influence.
A plaque in Dorset Square marks the site of the original Lord's Ground and commemorates the founding of the MCC
MCC member sporting the club's distinctive blazer
MCC coaching manuals