1. Plum Warner was knighted for services to sport in the 1937 Coronation Honours.
13 Facts About Plum Warner
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Plum Warner's mother, Rosa Cadiz, was a Spanish woman, and his father Charles Warner, was from an English colonial family.
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Plum Warner was educated in Barbados at Harrison College, and then sent to England to Rugby School and Oriel College, Oxford.
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Plum Warner played 15 Test matches, captaining in 10 of them, with a record of won 4, lost 6.
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Plum Warner was unable to play in any of the Tests, with Johnny Douglas taking over the captaincy.
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Plum Warner was named Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1904 and in 1921, making him one of two to have received the honour twice.
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Plum Warner played one more first-class match, in 1929 for the MCC against the Royal Navy.
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Plum Warner was the chairman of the England Test selectors for several years in the 1930s.
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Plum Warner later became President of the Marylebone Cricket Club.
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Plum Warner was knighted for his services to cricket in 1937.
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Plum Warner was cricket correspondent of the Morning Post from 1921 to 1933, and subsequently of the Daily Telegraph.
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Plum Warner married Agnes Charlotte Blyth in the summer of 1904 and had two sons, Esmond and John, and a daughter, Elizabeth.
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Plum Warner died, aged 89, at West Lavington, West Sussex.