Hylton Philipson

Infobox Historic Cricketer


nationality = English
country = England
country abbrev = Eng
name = Hylton Philipson
picture = Cricket_no_pic.pngbatting style = Right-handed batsman (RHB)
bowling style = n/a
tests = 5
test runs = 63
test bat avg = 9.00
test 100s/50s = 0/0
test top score = 30
test balls = 0
test wickets = 0
test bowl avg = n/a
test 5s = 0
test 10s = 0
test best bowling = n/a
test catches/stumpings = 8/3
FCs = 85
FC runs = 1,951
FC bat avg = 17.41
FC 100s/50s = 2/7
FC top score = 150
FC balls = 0
FC wickets = 0
FC bowl avg = n/a
FC 5s = 0
FC 10s = 0
FC best bowling = n/a
FC catches/stumpings = 103/47
debut date = 24 March
debut year = 1892
last date = 6 March
last year = 1895
source = http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/0/162/162.html

Hylton ("Punch") Philipson (born 8 June 1866 in Tynemouth, Northumberland, England; died 4 December 1935 at Hyde Park, London, England) was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Oxford University between 1887 and 1889 and for Middlesex between 1895 and 1898.

Cricketing career

Throughout his career Philipson was competing for the wicket-keeper's spot in the English Test side with Gregor MacGregor, which resulted in him playing in only five Test matches for England, which he did on the 1891/2 and 1894/5 tours of Australia. He also toured India with George Vernon in 1889, though this tour did not include any Tests.

Philipson went to Eton and had a good record as a schoolboy cricketer, before going to Oxford, where he got his blue and where he became captain in 1889. He also represented Oxford at tennis, rackets and Association football. His highest first-class innings was his 150 for the University against Middlesex in 1887, and in this year he was selected to play for the Gentlemen at both Lord's and the Oval.

Family

At birth his name was registered as "Hilton Philipson". He was the uncle of multi-talented sportsman Maxwell Woosnam, an Olympic and Wimbledon champion at lawn tennis and one-time captain of the England national football team. [cite book|last=Collins|first=Mick|authorlink=Mick Collins|year=2006|title=All-Round Genius: The Unknown Story of Britain's Greatest Sportsman|publisher=Aurum Press Limited|location=London|id=ISBN 1-84513-137-1] Philipson has been described as "one of those late Victorian gentleman amateurs quite indecently blessed by fortune" [Tim Longville, "Country Life", 10 January 2008] . He owed his own wealth to the Northumbrian coal mines.

Gardening

Philipson was a noted gardener. A visit to Japan on the way back from the test series in Australia in 1895 inspired him to apply knowledge that he acquired there to estate of Stobo Castle, near Peebles, in the Scottish Borders ["Country Life", 10 January 2008] . Stobo had originally been in the family of Philipson's wife, the Honourable Nina Murray, until their exile following the Jacobite rising of 1745. The Japanese-style water garden that Philipson created at Stobo between 1909-13 has been maintained, despite a succession of owners after the estate was sold shortly after his death. Stobo was acquired in 1971 by Leo Seymour, whose family still own it, and is occasionally open to the public.

Footnotes

References

* [http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/0/162/162.html CricketArchive page on Philipson]
* [http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/england/content/player/18516.html Cricinfo page on Philipson]
* [http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/england/content/story/155661.html Obituary of Hylton Philipson in the 1936 "Wisden Cricketers' Almanack"]

External links

* [http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Pictures/5/5244.html Last resting place for Hylton Philipson]