Lord Harris
Lord Harris, who died last week at the age of eighty-one, Will long be remembered as a good cricketer and an enthusiastic supporter of the game. - He played for Eton and Oxford, captained the Kent eleven fur many years in later Victorian -days, and was treasurer of the M.C.C. for a quarter of a century. Nor was he coidem to encourage cricket in England. As Governor or Bombay from 1890 to 1895 he did much to promote a lively interc.•st in the game among Indians, and was the means of inducing his friend, the late Lord Hawke, to take the first representative English eleven fur an Indian tour. The brilliant cricketers, like the Jam Sahib ol• Nawanagar, Prince Duleepsinghi and the Nawah of Pataudi, whom India has sent. us since then, were directly or indirectly encouraged by his example.
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