After a gap of five years the fourth team of English cricketers toured the West Indies in the 1901-02 season.
Wilson received a telegram on his arrival announcing the death of his mother and Dowson was also unavailable for the first game having a cold.
Bosanquet, Dowson and Wilson had been amongst the team that had recently toured North America in September and October 1901.
The standard of cricket was noticeably weaker in Jamaica than in Barbados and all 6 matches there were won, several by an innings.
With Dowson and Wilson unavailable for the first game against Barbados the tourists' bowling was very weak and they lost heavily.