tour through the American colonies. In North America, he married Susanna De Lancey, daughter of Oliver De Lancey, the head of one of the leading families in the Province of New York. Draper entertained a hope that he might be appointed as a Royal Governor, but this came to nothing. In 1774, Draper chaired the committee that formulated some early laws of cricket. They were settled and revised at the Star and Garter in Pall Mall on Friday 25 February 1774. The committee included the Duke of Dorset, the Earl of Tankerville, Harry Peckham and other "Noblemen and Gentlemen of Kent, Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex, Middlesex, and London". This meeting was one of the earlier sets of cricket rules and is acknowledged as being the first where the leg before wicket rule was introduced. American Revolutionary War A lieutenant-general in 1777, he became lieutenant-governor of Menorca, 1779–1782, until the island was captured by a combined Franco-Spanish expedition during the invasion of Menorca. He preferred unsubstantiated charges of misconduct against Lieutenant General James Murray, who had suspended him. He was reprimanded by a general court-martial in 1783. He died on 8 January 1787 and was buried in the old Abbey Church in Bath, where a monument has been erected to his memory. References Sources Pitt's Gallant Conqueror NY Times 1721 births 1787 deaths British Army lieutenant generals British Army personnel of the War of the Austrian Succession People educated at Eton College Alumni of King's College, Cambridge Grenadier Guards officers English cricket administrators British Army personnel of the Seven Years' War Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath People educated at Bristol Cathedral Choir School British people in colonial India British expatriates in the Philippines De Lancey family