Walter Phillips (1 April 1881 – 21 June 1948) was an English

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er. Phillips was born at

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, the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Lambert Phillips ('' née'' Hayward). His father was a farmer, brewer and miller and operated a number of breweries with tied public houses, including the Abbey Brewery in West Malling.Carlaw D (2020) ''Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914'' (revised edition), pp. 447.
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. Retrieved 2020-12-21.) Phillips was educated at

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where he played cricket for the school XI for two years, scoring 386 runs and taking 66 wickets in 1897, his final year at school.Ford WJ (1898) Public Schools Cricket in 1897, ''

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'', 1898, pp. 364–365. London: John Wisden. Phillips worked as a hop factor and played club cricket as a "highly regarded batsman" for Bickley Park,

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and The Mote. He played in two first-class matches. In the first, a 1903 fixture for Kent County Cricket Club against MCC at Lord's, he scored a total of three runs. His other top-level match came in 1912 for HDG Leveson-Gower's XI against

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, scoring 55 and 25 runs. He also played 16 Second XI matches for Kent between 1901 and 1911.Walter Phillips
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2020-06-04. In about 1908 Phillips married Beatrice Sanders from

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. He died in 1948 at

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in Kent; he was aged 67.Walter Phillips
CricInfo. Retrieved 2022-06-08.

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* 1881 births 1948 deaths English cricketers Kent cricketers H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI cricketers People from West Malling People from Mereworth Cricketers from Kent {{England-cricket-bio-1880s-stub