Hylton Philipson
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Hylton "Punch" Philipson (8 June 1866 in Tynemouth, Northumberland, England – 4 December 1935 (aged 69) at Hyde Park, London, England) was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Oxford University between 1887 and 1889 and for Middlesex between 1895 and 1898. He played five Test matches for England between 1892 and 1895.
Cricketing career
Throughout his career, Philipson was competing for the
Philipson went to
Family
At birth his name was registered as "Hilton Philipson". He was the uncle of multi-talented sportsman
Philipson married in 1896 the Honourable Nina Charlotte Murray (1875–1966), daughter of Montolieu Oliphant-Murray, 10th Lord Elibank (later created Viscount Elibank), by his wife Blanche Alice Scott. They had children:[3]
- Nina Clare Philipson (b.1899)
- Hylton Ralph Philipson (b.1902)
- Oliphant James Philipson (b.1905)
He lived at Middleton Hall in Northumberland, but in 1905 bought the estate of Stobo Castle, near Peebles, in the Scottish Borders. Stobo had originally been in the family of Philipson's wife, until their exile following the Jacobite rising of 1745.
Gardening
Philipson was a noted gardener. A visit to Japan on the way back from the Test series in Australia in 1895 inspired him to apply knowledge that he acquired there to the estate of Stobo Castle.[4] The Japanese-style water garden that Philipson created at Stobo between 1909–13 has been maintained, despite a succession of owners after the estate was sold shortly after his death. The Stobo estate was acquired in 1971 by Leo Seymour, whose family still own it (but not the castle), and the Water Gardens are occasionally open to the public.
References
- ISBN 1-84513-137-1.
- ^ Tim Longville, Country Life, 10 January 2008
- ^ Debrett´s Peerage, 1923
- ^ Country Life, 10 January 2008