{{Use New Zealand English|date=July 2013}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2023}} thumb|right|Phillipps in 1933 '''John Hugh Phillipps''' {{post-nominals|country=NZL|CBE|size=85%}} (born Auckland, 1 January 1898, died Wellington, New Zealand, 8 June 1977) was a New Zealand cricket administrator. He managed the New Zealand cricket team's tours of England in 1949 and 1958, and the MCC's tour of New Zealand in 1960-61.<ref name="auto">''Wisden'' 1978, p. 1080.</ref>
==Life and career== Phillipps served as a rifleman with the New Zealand forces in the First World War,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/record/C52967 |title=John Hugh Phillipps |via=Online Cenotaph |publisher=Auckland War Memorial Museum |access-date=9 July 2022}}</ref> and in the Transport Corps in the Second World War as a lieutenant colonel. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1946 New Year Honours.<ref>Julia Millen, ''Salute to Service: A History of the Royal New Zealand Corps of Transport and Its Predecessors'', Victoria University Press, Wellington, 1997, p. 423.</ref>
Of his management of the 1949 team, ''Wisden'' commented: "No more efficient or courteous manager of a touring side can be imagined than Mr J.H. Phillipps."<ref>Reg Hayter, "New Zealanders in England, 1949", ''Wisden'' 1950, p. 211.</ref> He also played in the two-day match against Durham but did not bat or bowl.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/104/104395.html|title=Durham v New Zealanders 1949|website=CricketArchive|access-date=10 July 2023}}</ref>
A benefit match for him was played in Wellington in December 1956, between Wellington and "J.H. Phillipps' XI", a team of players from the 1949 touring team. It was regarded as a first-class match at the time but was later downgraded by the New Zealand authorities,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/137/137473.html|title=Wellington v J.H. Phillipps' XI 1956-57|website=CricketArchive|access-date=10 July 2023}}</ref> perhaps because many of the Phillipps XI had by that time retired from first-class cricket.<ref>[http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/83710.html "Martin Donnelly – Summer sun on a winter's day"] by Trevor Chesterfield on Cricinfo. Retrieved 10 July 2013.</ref>
Phillipps worked for the Shell company in New Zealand for 35 years. He retired in December 1957, at which time he was staff manager.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Personal Items |journal=Press |date=7 December 1957 |page=12 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19571207.2.62}}</ref> He was also the chairman of the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation's central advisory program, and was the first executive of Outward Bound New Zealand.<ref name=PressObit>{{cite journal |title=N.Z. cricket personality dies |journal=Press |page=6 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19770609.2.74}}</ref>
After the ill-will caused during the MCC's tour of New Zealand in 1958-59, an MCC tour of New Zealand by a young side of Test aspirants was organised for the 1960–61 season, captained by the diplomatic Dennis Silk and managed by Phillipps.<ref>D. J. Cameron, [http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=163782 "Obituary: Colin Cowdrey"], ''New Zealand Herald'', 9 December 2000. Retrieved 12 July 2013.</ref>
Phillipps was promoted to Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1960 New Year Honours.<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/41911/supplements/42/page.pdf Supplement to the London Gazette, 1 January 1960, p. 42] Retrieved 10 July 2013.</ref> On 5 July 1960 he was one of 63 administrators and former players from overseas countries to be invited to become honorary life members of the MCC.<ref>"M.C.C. Honour Overseas Cricketers", ''Wisden'' 1961, p. 553.</ref>
His brief ''Wisden'' obituary described him as "a man universally loved and respected".<ref name="auto"/> ''The Press'' in Christchurch described him as "efficient, confident, quick-minded and a fluent speaker".<ref name=PressObit/>
He was the grandfather of Martin Phillipps, founder of the New Zealand band The Chills.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/obituary-church-leader-profound-caring |title=Obituary: Church leader profound, caring |first=Mike |last=Houlahan |date=31 January 2026 |work=Otago Daily Times |access-date=2 February 2026}}</ref>
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