Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday
6th, 7th, 8th & 9th August 2026
Lot 38
Estimate: £70/100
Frank Worrell of Barbados 1924-1967’. Order of Thanksgiving for Worrell held at Westminster Abbey on 7th April 1967 with official ticket for admission to the Choir for the service. Also two copies of an Order of Service for the memorial service held for Worrell, ‘Sometime professional Radcliffe Cricket Club’, at Radclife Parish Church, 9th April 1967. Very good condition. Sold with a mono studio photograph of Worrell, head and shoulders, wearing his Commonwealth tour of India & Ceylon blazer, a copy photograph of him wearing graduation robes. Both 6.25”x8.25”, photographer unknown. Plus a signed mono photograph of Worrell in batting pose and a further photograph of him walking out to bat with Gerry Gomez with inscription ‘To Derek from Frank’. Good condition. Qty 7.
Worrell was the first cricketer to be honoured with a memorial service in Westminster Abbey. He graduated from Manchester University with a B.A. degree in 1959.


