Philip Miles (cricketer)

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]

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