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Philip William Herbert Miles (7 January 1848 – 4 December 1933) was an English army officer and first-class 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]
Active 1868–77, Miles played for Nottinghamshire.[1]
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