MCC Honorary Life members

MCC Honorary Life membership recognises outstanding service to the club.

It has been bestowed sparingly and, including visiting royalty, only 86 members have been honoured since the club's foundation in 1838.

The complete list of those afforded Honorary Life membership is below:
Year
 Member
1861D.S. Campbell
1861G. Cavenagh 
1875R.C. Bagot 
1878 T.J.D. Kelly 
1879 W.H. Handfield 
1881 HRH Prince Albert Victor of Wales 
1881 HRH Prince George of Wales 
1881 I.D. Walker 
1882E.A.L. Vieusseux 
1883 Hon Ivo Bligh 
1883 C.F.H. Leslie 
1883 W.W. Read 
1883 A.G. Steel
1883 C.T. Studd
1883G.B. Studd 
1883 G.F. Vernon 
1883 E.F.S. Tylecote 
1883H.S. Barlow 
1886 J. McLaughlin  
1887 A.M. Ollivier 
1887 F.D. White 
1888 M.P. Bowden 
1888Hon Lord Hawke 
1888A.E. Newton
1888T.C. O'Brien 
1888 Alfred Stoddart 
1895 F.G.J. Ford 
1895 L.H. Gay 
1895 H. Phillipson 
1895 A.C. MacLaren 
1898 N.F. Durce 
1898 J.R. Mason 
1898 Prince Ranjitsinhji  
1898J. Travis 
1901 Major T.F. Morkham 
1901 R. Murchison 
1901 C.H. Ross 
1902 A.O. Jones 
1902 H.G. Garnett 
1902 Gilbert Jessop 
1902 C. McGahey  
1902 C. Robson 
1904 Hugh Trumble 
1909 John Blackman 
1910 Major J.B. Wardill 
1920 King Edward VIII 
1921 Rt Hon Lord Forster  
1922 Warwick Armstrong 
1923 Sir Leo Cussen 
1923  Henry Harrison 
1925C. Forrester 
1927 King George VI 
1931 Vernon Ransford 
1934 Dr Ramsay Mailer 
1934 HRH The Duke of Gloucester  
1937Rt Hon Lord Somers 
1939 Dr William McClelland 
1939 Sir Edward Mitchell 
1939 Charles Simmonds 
1945 J.C. Blair 
1945 Hector Donahoo 
1948 F.T. Krcrouse  
1952 D.J. McClelland Sr 
1954 HRH The Duke of Edinburgh 
1959 Hans Ebeling  
1959 Albert Chadwick 
1971HRH The Prince of Wales 
1971 David Sutherland 
1975 L.R. Armstrong 
1976Eric Tolhurst 
1981Keith Rigg 
1983 Ian Johnson 
1987 Sir Bernard Callinan 
1987 Percy Beames 
1991Clive Fairbairn 
1993 Donald Cordner 
1998 John Mitchell 
2000 Dr Ian McDonald 
2001 Dr John Lill 
2004 Bruce Church 
2005 John Cain Junior 
2008 David Jones 
2012 David Meiklejohn  
2014 Bob Lloyd 
2017 Paul Sheahan 
2021 Steven Smith 
2023 Stephen Gough 
2024 Michael Happell