A team of amateur cricketers under the captaincy of Arthur Priestley toured the West Indies in the 1896–97 season, playing matches between January and March 1897.
A party of thirteen was taken: Bush, Barratt and Priestley had been in the Slade Lucas's tour to the West Indies two years previously.
However the remaining seven had played first-class cricket in 1896, and so the team was clearly stronger than Lucas's two years earlier.
In 1896 Palairet, Stanley and Woods had played for Somerset, Beldam and Stoddart for Middlesex, Stone for Leicestershire and Lewis for Oxford University.
The tourists set their opponents 141 to win in the last innings which they achieved for the loss of 7 wickets, having been 41 for 6 at one stage.
Clifford Goodman and Archie Cumberbatch took nine wickets each for the West Indians, as did Andrew Stoddart for the tourists.