1928, and the club's president from 1929 to 1939. He was an outstanding fielder, and took 103 catches. He toured the West Indies with Lord Hawke in 1896–97, and North America with Pelham Warner in 1897. He joined the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) tours to South Africa in 1905–6, but did not play in the Tests. He returned to South Africa in 1909–10, and captained England in all three of the Test matches he played, winning one and losing two against South Africa in 1909/10, with Frederick Fane captaining the other two Test matches of the series. He played for the Gentlemen against the Players on several occasions. For fifty years he played a major role in organising the Scarborough Festival which takes place at the end of each English cricket season. Touring Test teams would play annually against H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI. He became a Freeman of the Borough of Scarborough in 1950. Leveson Gower became an England Test selector in 1909, and was chairman of selectors in 1924 and from 1927 to 1930. In 1925 he published a book called Cricket Personalities, which included profiles on well-known cricketers such as Jack Hobbs, Percy Fender and Frank Woolley. He was knighted for his services to cricket in 1953 and in the same year he published a book of reminiscences entitled Off and on the Field. Other activities Outside cricket, Leveson Gower was a stockbroker. He married Enid Mary Hammond-Chambers in 1908. They had no children. He served as a major in the Royal Army Service Corps in the First World War, and was mentioned in dispatches. He died in Kensington, survived by his wife. Nickname Leveson Gower was nicknamed "Shrimp" at school, probably due to his shortness and slight physique, but few cricket sources refer to him by anything other than his initials. During a tour of America in 1897 organised by Plum Warner that Leveson Gower took part in, the Philadelphian journalist Ralph D. Paine published the following piece of humorous verse concerning the pronunciation of his surname: At one end stocky Jessop frowned, The human catapult Who wrecks the roofs of distant towns When set in his assault. His mate was that perplexing man We know as "Looshun-Gore", It isn’t spelt at all that way, We don’t know what it's for. But as with Cholmondeley and St. John The alphabet is mixed, And Yankees cannot