Philip Dehany
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Philip Dehany (died 1809) was a West Indies plantation owner and cricket pioneer. He sat in the House of Commons from 1778 to 1780.
Dehany was the eldest son of David Dehany, merchant of Bristol and planter of Jamaica, and his wife Mary Gregory, daughter of Matthew Gregory. He was educated at Westminster School and was admitted at Trinity College, Cambridge on 3 July 1752 aged 18.[1] In 1754 he succeeded his father to the Point and Barbican sugar estates in Hanover, Jamaica.[2]
Cricket
Dehany was at school and university with the Rev Charles Powlett, son of Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton. In 1763 Powlett became curate of a parish near Hambledon where Delany helped him establish the Hambledon Club based on the local cricket team. The club was as much about drinking and gambling as cricket.[3] Dehany was a member of the Committee which revised the Laws of Cricket at the Star and Garter Hotel in Pall Mall in 1774.