Lords Cricket Ground, Harris Garden, St John's Wood, London

Lords Cricket Ground, Harris Garden, St John's Wood, London. The engraved tablet commemorating Lord Harris in the Harris Garden at Lord's Cricket Ground_x000D_
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The Harris Garden was built by the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1934 in memory of George Robert Canning Harris, Governor of Bombay and amateur cricketer. The tablet on the west wall of the garden reads "Erected to the memory of George Robert Canning, Lord Harris, 1851-1932, by the M.C.C. in recognition of the invaluable services rendered to cricket and to the club over a period of more than fifty years. He was a great cricketer, a great gentleman and a wise counsellor whose enthusiasm for the game never waned."

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