A team of Amateurs under the captaincy of Lord Hawke toured the West Indies in the 1896–97 season playing matches between January and April 1897.
It would appear from the correspondence published that Lord Hawke treated Priestley in a rather high-handed manner.
A party of 12 was taken: Berens, Bromley-Davenport, Dawson and Wakefield had been in the Lucas tour to the West Indies two years previously.
The remaining 5 had played first class cricket in 1896 and so, like Priestley's tourists, the team was somewhat stronger than Lucas's two years earlier.
Warner was the great success amongst the batsmen scoring 984 runs including 4 centuries in all matches.
Bromley-Davenport was the most successful bowler but missed a number of matches with a broken finger.