Philip Snow

Philip Albert Snow OBE (1915 to 2012) was an English cricketer who worked as a colonial administrator in Fiji. He began in 1936 with the Leicestershire Second XI, for whom he played four matches in 1936 and 1937, and made his first-class debut in 1948 for Fiji against Auckland during Fiji's tour of New Zealand. He played five first-class matches on that tour, scoring 121 runs at an average of 17.28 with a highest score of 38, and taking four wickets at an average of 25.25 with best figures of 2 for 60. He was the younger brother of the scientist and author C. P. Snow, whose biography he wrote as Stranger and Brother in 1982, and of the historian Eric Snow. He was educated at Alderman Newton's School in Leicester and at Christ's College, Cambridge.