Philip Howard Morton (20 June 1857 – 13 May 1925) was an English cricketer and schoolmaster.
He played for Cambridge, the Gentlemen, Surrey, and Norfolk. In the heyday of his teaching career, he was head master of the fashionable prep school Wixenford from 1903 to 1918.
Life
The second son of the Rev. E. H. Morton, and the younger brother of another first-class cricketer, C. H. Morton, the young Morton was educated at Rossall School and Trinity College, Cambridge. A right-arm fast bowler, he was a member of the famous Cambridge University team of 1878 which included A. P. Lucas, Alfred Lyttelton and his brother Edward, and A. G. Steel.
After Cambridge, Morton played for Surrey and the Gentlemen of England, and he retired from first-class cricket in 1886. He also played for Norfolk.
