About
Meet the Kent Cricket Heritage Trust Committee Members and discover more about the valuable work they do.
The Kent Cricket Heritage Trust is a charitable trust set up to manage the collection of memorabilia, papers and artworks owned by Kent County Cricket Club.
This valuable work includes cataloguing every item in the collection, cleaning and restoring delicate fabric items, checking bats and picture frames for woodworm, cleaning silverware, scanning fragile paper documents and storing items to conservation standards. You will never hear us say we have nothing to do!
However, our work costs money and we need help.
Please consider joining the Kent Cricket Heritage Trust or, if you are able, make a small donation.
If you are a UK taxpayer, please consider allowing us to claim GiftAid on your contribution.
Ian Phipps
Ian, Heritage Officer for Kent Cricket, has served on the Trust committee since November 2022 and is a Trustee of KCHT.
He is the main contact for inquiries about any aspect of Kent Cricket history or donations to the club’s collection, and leads Ground Tours at Canterbury on select match days.
Ian first attended a Kent match in 1971, became a member in 1975, and played club cricket across East Kent as a fast bowling all-rounder for many years.
Peter Francis
Born and bred in the Medway towns, Peter played cricket until his late forties for Old Anchorians C. C. until “the knees gave up the struggle”.
He became a life member of Kent CCC in 2004 on retiring from business. A committee member of the Supporters Club, he became Editor of their quarterly magazine in 2011 and has now produced some 57 editions.
Peter became a Committee member of Kent Cricket Heritage Trust in 2018 and in 2020 co-authored the celebrated KCCC Grounds book with Howard Milton.
Jonathan Rice
Jonathan Rice is a former committee member (2004-2017) and president (2018) of Kent CCC.
He has been a member of Kent since the 1980s, when his family moved to the county, and has been chair of the Heritage Trust since its establishment in 2013.
He has written or compiled about 70 books, some 20 of which have been about cricket. Several have been shortlisted for prizes : none have won.
He played for Saltwood CC for 40 years and once scored eight runs off one ball, while batting with a runner.
Keith Austin
Keith, a Life member of Kent Cricket since 1997, was elected to the Heritage Trust’s Committee in 2022 as Honorary Treasurer and also serves as a Trustee.
He was Secretary to the Committee of the Kent Cricket Supporters Club for many years and is currently Chair of that Club.
John Piddock
John has been a Kent supporter since moving to the county in the early 80s. He has a degree in Physics from Edinburgh University and originally worked in the nuclear industry but later qualified as a Chartered Company Secretary in the health sector.
He has served on several groups including a London Club Library committee, Village Hall committees, and Friends of the Marlowe Theatre. Together with his wife, Rosemary, he published a book on archaeological excavations that took place in their village, responsible for the photography during the excavations on behalf of Reading University.
John became a member of KCCC in 2023, joined KCHT in 2024 as Honorary Secretary and is also a member of the Kent Cricket Supporters Club.
Rosemary Piddock
Rosemary has had an interest in cricket for many years having been born into a cricket-loving family. Her early memories of Kent Cricket are of attending Cricket Week in Dover. She has a degree in Social and Economic History from Kent University and has, with her husband John, published a book on archaeological excavations that took place in their village.
She has produced research papers for the RNLI, Bletchley Park and British Airways Archives. Rosemary has had articles published by the Kent Archaeological Society and 19 chapters in the ‘Lyminge a history’ series of books published by Lyminge Historical Society.
She became a member of the Kent Cricket Heritage Trust in 2024 and joined the committee in 2025. She is also a member of the Kent Cricket Supporters Club. Rosemary is currently researching the History of Kent Women’s Cricket.
Howard Milton
Howard is an Honorary Vice-President of the Kent County Cricket Club. He first saw the county play in 1955 and became a member in 1969.
One of the founders of the Heritage Trust in 2013 and still serving as a trustee, he has edited its newsletter, ‘Inside Edge’, for 10 years. Howard has been Kent’s Honorary Statistician since 1977 (shared to 1988) and a significant contributor to every Kent Annual since 1976.
He was elected Cricket Statistician of the Year in 1995. Among his many other achievements, Howard was Honorary Librarian of The Cricket Society from 1977 to 2017, his service being recognised with a national award for cricket scholarship which bears his name.
Howard has written or co-authored fourteen books on Kent cricket, including two of the Kent history volumes.
Simon Storey
Simon is a member of the Heritage Trust committee through his role as Chief Executive Officer of Kent Cricket, a post he has held since November 2018.
Prior to this, he served as CEO of Derbyshire CCC for six years having previously held several senior roles in sales, marketing and management in industry, both in the UK and overseas.
Simon is a firm supporter of the work of the Trust and is also serves as one of it’s four Trustees.