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ceremony Logan wore an extravagant black velvet tailcoat trimmed with marcasite buttons complete with knee breeches ordered from William Anderson of Edinburgh: seeD. Bale,'Lavender and Old Lace', Fair Lady, 1970,80-81. 100 The event took place on 10July 1902. Those attending included H. R. H.The Crown Prince of Greece; The Crown Prince and Princess of Romania; H. R. H. Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein; and the Danish Royal Family: The Times, 12 July 1902. 101 ProminentMen ofCape Colony, 35.

and the pride of the British Empire,Englishmen, Australians,and Indian - a regular Imperial group - would have bitten the dust.': South African Review, 28June 1901. 81 Gted in Toms, Logan's Way, 144. 82 Wisden (London:John Wisden & Co.,1902),466. 83 Cricket, 22 August 1901. 84 See profile by P. Trevor in E. T. Sachs (ed.),The Lighter Side of Cricket (London: Methuen, 1901), 179. Arthur ConanDoyle's single wicket in first-class cricket was that of W. G. Grace: Winch, Cricket in Southern Africa, 46. 85 P. M. Krebs, Gender, Race, and the Writing ofEmpire: Public Discourse and the Boer War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,1999),85. 86 For analysis of events surrounding the tour,see D. Allen and F.J. G. van der Merwe,'The 1901 Controversy: South African Cricket and the Anglo Boer War,1899-1902', South African Journal for Research in Sport, Physical Education and Recreation, 25,2 (2003). 87 Quoted inJ.D. Carr,The Life ofSir Arthur Conan Doyle (Vancouver: Vintage, 1949), 86. 88 Krebs, Gender, Race, and the Writing of Empire, 86. Conan Doyle had abandoned his practice when he became a literary success in the early 1890s. 89 A. C. Doyle,'An Incursion intoDiplomacy', Cornhill Magazine, 58 (1906),744. 92 Winch, Cricket in Southern Africa, 46. 93 Berwickshire Advertiser, 7 May 1901. 94 Kotze,'The Second South African Team in England, 1901',663. 95 Cricket, 1 August 1901. 96 The Times, 4 May 1901 and Winch, Cricket in Southern Africa, 46. Logan had combined the tour with his annual holiday to Scotland and the social side of the visit was well documented within the press. 97 Lord's Library,London,MCC minutes,10December 1900, 7 January 1901,13 May 1901. 98 Winch, Cricket in Southern Africa, 46. 99 See original invitations,Marie Rawdon Museum, Matjiesfontein. The Logans rose to the occasion in finery fashioned for them by a court.dres_ smaker in London and a master tailor of Scotland. For the 90 The Times, 26 March 1901. 91 Spectator, 20 April 1901.

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