Edward Phillips

Edward Stone Phillips (18 January 1883 – 8 May 1915) was a Welsh first-class cricketer.

Born at Newport, Phillips was educated at Marlborough College, where he played for the school cricket team for three years. From Marlborough he went up to Pembroke College, Cambridge. and when he went up to Pembroke he debuted in first-class cricket for Cambridge University against HDG Leveson-Gower's XI at Fenner's in 1903. Phillips would play a further nine first-class matches for Cambridge in the 1904 season. He made one century score of 107 against GJV Weigall's XI.

After graduating from Pembroke he became a director in the family brewing business, Phillips & Sons, Ltd. In early May 1915, his battalion was engaged in the Battle of Frezenberg (as part of the wider Second Battle of Ypres), during which Phillips was killed in action during a German artillery barrage. He was subsequently buried where he fell, but his grave was destroyed by shellfire. His brother, Leslie, would be killed nearby less than three weeks later.