Philip Dehany

Philip Dehany (died 1809) was a West Indies plantation owner and cricket pioneer.

He was educated at Westminster School and was admitted at Trinity College, Cambridge on 3 July 1752 aged 18.

[1] In 1754 he succeeded his father to the Point and Barbican sugar estates in Hanover, Jamaica.

[3] Dehany was a member of the Committee which revised the Laws of Cricket at the Star and Garter Hotel in Pall Mall in 1774.

Dehany was returned as Member of Parliament for St Ives on Bolton's interest at a by-election on 26 December 1778.