Philip Morgan
Personal information
Full name
Philip Richard Llewelyn Morgan
Born11 March 1927
Derby, Derbyshire, England
Died12 January 2017(2017-01-12) (aged 89)
Winslow, Buckinghamshire,
England
BattingRight-handed
BowlingLeg break
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1946Oxford University
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 1
Runs scored 1
Batting average 1.00
100s/50s –/–
Top score 1
Balls bowled 36
Wickets 0
Bowling average –
5 wickets in innings –
10 wickets in match –
Best bowling –
Catches/stumpings –/–
Source: Cricinfo, 31 March 2020

Philip Richard Llewelyn Morgan (11 March 1927 – 12 January 2017) was an English sportsman, clergyman and educator.

Life

He was born at Derby in March 1927, the eldest son of the Rev. Morgan Brinley Morgan, in a family of seven sons and one daughter. He was brought up for a time in Highams Park in east London; his father became vicar of Hockley from 1935.[1][2] He was educated at St Edmund's School at Hindhead, and St John's School, Leatherhead.[1][3]

In 1945 Morgan went to the University of Oxford, supported by the Royal Air Force, where he studied modern history at Wadham College and theology at St Stephen's House.[1][4] While studying at Oxford, he made a single appearance in first-class cricket against the touring Indians at Oxford in 1946.[5] He then spent time in Southern Rhodesia as a trainee pilot, returning to Oxford in 1948.[1]

Morgan at this period was known as a middle and long-distance runner. He beat the future Olympic champion Chris Brasher in the Varsity three-mile race in 1951, and three years later he ran in the race that proceeded Roger Bannister's record-breaking four-minute mile at Iffley Road.[6]

Morgan took holy orders in the Church of England. Morgan's first ecclesiastical post was as curate of Warlingham, Surrey from 1955–58.[4] He then became the chaplain of Haileybury and Imperial Service College, before becoming the headmaster of the college's junior school.[6] Following his retirement from Haileybury, he later became the rector of The Deverills in Wiltshire.[4] Morgan died suddenly in January 2017 at Winslow, Buckinghamshire.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Rev Philip Morgan (Staff 1958-1973)". The Haileybury Society Annual Report and Newsletter: 20–21. 2017.
  2. ↑ "The Essex Churches". Chelmsford Chronicle. 12 July 1935. p. 7.
  3. ↑ "Player profile: Philip Morgan". CricketArchive. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  4. 1 2 3 Crockford's Clerical Directory. Vol. 87, 88. Oxford University Press. 1977. p. 703.
  5. ↑ "First-Class Matches played by Philip Morgan". CricketArchive. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  6. 1 2 Booth, Lawrence (2019). The Shorter Wisden 2019. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 270–71. ISBN 9781472963871.
  7. ↑ "Morgan". The Daily Telegraph. February 2017. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
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