Philip Cartwright

Philip Cartwright (26 September 1880 – 21 November 1955) was an English cricketer who played all of his first-class cricket for Sussex. Cartwright played for the county prior to the First World War and briefly after it, making 84 appearances. He was a left-handed batsman who bowled left-arm medium pace.

Career and life Born in Gibraltar, Cartwright made his first-class debut for Sussex against Derbyshire in the 1905 County Championship, with him making two further appearances in that season against Nottinghamshire and Northamptonshire. His next first-class appearance for Sussex didn't come until the 1909 County Championship when he appeared against Nottinghamshire. Cartwright made 27 further first-class appearances in the 1909 season, he scored 833 runs at an average of 24.80, with five half centuries and a single century score of 101 against Leicestershire. This was to be the only first-class century he made in his career. Taking 39 catches in the field, he also took sixteen wickets with his part—time medium pace bowling, at a bowling average of 34.18, with best figures of 34.18.

He was afflicted with mental illness later in his life, with him dying at Holloway Sanatorium for the insane at Virginia Water, Surrey on 21 November 1955.

Playing style His playing style was described in his obituary in the 1956 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack as: "He [Cartwright] is far better than his somewhat peculiar style might lead one to suppose".