Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia
Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
10th, 11th & 12th April 2026
Lot 39
Estimate: £100/150
Hammer: £170
Edward George ‘Teddy’ Wynyard. Hampshire & England 1878-1908. Three page handwritten folding letter in ink from Wynyard on M.C.C./ Lord’s Cricket Ground official letterhead with very good cricket content relating to the impending 1906/07 tour to New Zealand, which Wynyard was to lead. Dated 18th June 1906, Wynyard is writing to ‘Dear Magnay’ saying ‘The team for New Zealand is in no sense mine but one selected by M.C.C. They have asked me to go & I am only officially concerned in getting it up. We wrote to Eyre who replied that only P.R. May would be able to go from Cambridge; we then got on with the invitations on that basis. The side is not complete and if you like I will certainly ask Lacey [Secretary, M.C.C.] to submit your name as able to go’. Very nicely signed ‘E.G. Wynyard’. Light horizontal fold, otherwise in very good condition.
The planning for the 1906/07 tour to New Zealand was overshadowed by the aborted tour to Australia. The relatively weak team set sail comprising only five regular County players and four university players, of which Magnay was not one of them. Christopher B.W. Magnay, 3rd Baronet Magnay (Cambridge University & Middlesex 1904-1911) played twelve first-class matches.