Philip Miles (cricketer)

Philip William Herbert Miles (7 January 1848 – 4 December 1933) was an English army officer and first-class cricketer.

Life

He was born in Bingham, the son of Robert Henry William Miles (1818–1883), its rector, who was the son of Philip John Miles.[1][2] His mother was Mary Ellin Cleaver, who married Miles in 1844 and had with him a family of six sons and four daughters.[3] She was the daughter of James Jarvis Cleaver, and this was a marriage of cousins. The sixth son was Frank Miles.[4]

Philip Miles was educated at Marlborough College, and was nominated in 1867 to Woolwich College.[5] In 1869 he became a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery.[6]

Miles died in Bude.[1]

Cricket career

Active 1868–77, Miles played for Nottinghamshire.[1]

References
  1. Philip Miles at ESPNcricinfo
  2. "Summary of Individual, Philip John Miles 1st Mar 1774 – 24th Mar 1845, Legacies of British Slave-ownership". Retrieved 1 October 2017.
  3. Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry. 1882. p. 1246.
  4. Jones, Timothy Willem; Matthews-Jones, Lucinda (26 January 2016). Material Religion in Modern Britain: The Spirit of Things. Palgrave Macmillan US. p. 82. ISBN 9781137540638. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
  5. coll, Marlborough (1867). Prolusiones. p. 28. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
  6. Hart's Annual Army List, Militia List, and Imperial Yeomanry List. J. Murray. 1876. p. 172.


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