Roger Phillips

Roger Howard Phillips MBE (16 December 1932 – 15 November 2021) was a British photographer, botanist and writer.

Biography Phillips was born on 16 December 1932 in Uxbridge to Philip and Elsie Phillips (née Williams). He was educated at St Christopher School in Letchworth and – after national service with the Royal Air Force in Canada He was also an Honorary Garden Manager at Eccleston Square in London, where he lived, and served as chair of the Society for the Protection of London Squares.

Personal life Phillips' 1958 marriage to Pammy Wray ended in divorce; they had a son, and she predeceased him. He subsequently had two daughters with his second wife Nicky Foy, whom he married in 2003.

Selected publications Phillips, Roger, and Jacqui Hurst. 1983. Wild food: [a unique photographic guide to finding, cooking and eating wild plants, mushrooms and seaweed]. London: Pan Books. Phillips, Roger, Derek Reid, Ronald Rayner, and Lyndsay Shearer. 1981. Mushrooms and other fungi of Great Britain and Europe. London: Pan Books.