PHILLIPPS-DE LISLE, Ambrose Lisle March (eld. son of Charles March Phillipps 1779–1862). b. 17 March 1809; educ. King’s coll. Camb.; joined R.C. church while an undergraduate 1828; great advocate for the reunion of christendom; a friend of the hon. and rev. George Spencer (Father Ignatius) from 1829, and the means of his conversion 1830; sheriff of Leicestershire 1868; is depicted in Disraeli’s novel Coningsby, 3 vols. 1844, as Eustace Lyle of St. Geneviéve; took name of De Lisle; author of The catholic christian’s complete manual 1847; Manual of devotion for use of the brethren of the confraternity of the Living rosary 1843; Mahometanism in its relation to prophecy 1855. d. Garendon park, Leicestershire 5 March 1878. Life of father Ignatius of St. Paul (1866) 186–95; Times, 8 March 1878 p. 9.

PHILLIPS, Alfred. b. 1802; educ. Jesus coll. Camb., 28 wrangler and B.A. 1824, M.A. 1837, B.D. and D.D. 1841; V. of Kilmersdon, Somerset 1833–41; head master of Crewkerne gram. sch.; principal of King William’s coll. Isle of Man, principal of Cheltenham coll. 1841–5; V. of Bushbury, Staffs. 1864–7. d. Stalbridge rectory, Blandford, residence of rev. G. E. Phillips 10 June 1880.

PHILLIPS, Alfred. b. 1844; surveyor to rural sanitary authority of Dorchester 1877–80; surveyor to Festiniog 1880 to death, where he brought in a supply of water from a lake in the mountains five miles distant; A.I.C.E. 1 Dec. 1874. d. Festiniog 8 Feb. 1889. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xcvii 422 (1889).

PHILLIPS, Benjamin. b. about 1805; hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; F.R.S. 18 Dec. 1834; surgeon to the Westminster hospital; resided Brent Bridge house, Hendon; author of Epidemic, contagion and infection, with their remedies 1832; A series of experiments shewing that arteries may be obliterated without ligature, compression or the knife 1832; A treatise on the urethra 1832; Scrofula, its nature and treatment 1846. d. Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 11 June 1861.

PHILLIPS, Sir Benjamin Samuel (son of Samuel Phillips). b. London 4 Jany. 1811; warehousemen and importers of fancy goods as Faudel, Phillips and Sons 36 to 40 Newgate street 1830–86; common councilman 1847, being the first Jew elected in London; alderman of city of London for ward of Farringdon within 24 June 1857 to April 1888, sheriff 1859–60, lord mayor 1865–6; caused collections to be made for relief of cholera patients in England 1866, and for relief of the famine in India 1866; entertained king and queen of the Belgians at the mansion house 6 July 1866, visited Brussels where he was received by the king who made him a commander of the order of Leopold Oct. 1866; knighted at Osborne 28 Dec. 1866; president of Society of Hebrew literature 16 Dec. 1873. d. 17 Grosvenor street, London 9 Oct. 1889. J. E. Ritchie’s Famous city men (1884) 129–38; Illust. sp. and dr. news xxiii 390 (1885) portrait; Illust. Times 11 Nov. 1865 p. 292 portrait; I.L.N. xlvii 456 (1865) portrait.

PHILLIPS, Sir Benjamin Travell (2 son of Stephen Howell Phillips of 12 Norfolk st. Strand, London, solicitor). b. in parish of St. Clement Danes, Strand, London 13 Oct. 1804; educ. Merchant Taylor’s school 1813 etc.; cornet 7 Bengal light cavalry 16 Jany. 1821, major 28 Sept. 1841 to 6 Sept. 1851; lieut. col. 4 Bengal light cavalry 1852 to 28 Nov. 1854; lieut. col. 3 Bengal light cavalry 28 Nov. 1854 to 3 May 1856; raised the Bengal cavalry depôt at Cawnpore 1842; in Sikh campaign of 1848–9, medal; M.G. 25 March 1856; knighted at St. James’s palace 18 Feb. 1858; lieutenant of the yeomen of the guard 23 July 1857 to Dec. 1861. d. Paris 10 May 1880.

PHILLIPS, Charles (son of Charles Phillips, a councillor of Sligo, d. 1800). b. Sligo 1786; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1806; student at the Middle Temple 1807; called to Irish bar 1812, went Connaught circuit; one of the chief agitators for Roman Catholic emancipation, presented with a national testimonial 1813; barrister M.T. 9 Feb. 1821; became leader of the Old Bailey bar; called Counsellor O’Garnish, his conduct of the defence of Courvoisier 1840 generally condemned; comr. of Liverpool bankruptcy court 21 Oct. 1842; comr. of insolvent debtors’ court of London 25 June 1846 to death; author of A letter to the editor of the Edinburgh Review 1810; The consolations of Erin: a eulogy 1810; The loves of Celestine and St. Aubert, 2 vols. 1811; The emerald isle, a poem 1812, 2 ed. 1812; A garland for the grave of R. B. Sheridan 1816; The speeches of Charles Phillips 1817; Recollections of Curran and some of his contemporaries 1818, 5 ed. 1857; The queen’s case stated 1820, 20 ed. 1820; Napoleon the third by A man of the world 1854; Vacation thoughts on capital punishment 1856, 2 ed. 1857. d. 39 Gordon sq. London 1 Feb. 1859. bur. Highgate cemet. left £40,000. J. Grant’s Portraits of public characters i 185–216 (1841); The Pantheon of the age iii 134 (1825) portrait; Burke’s Connaught circuit (1885) 188–202; O’Rorke’s History of Sligo ii 511–21 (1890); European Mag. lxx 387–90 (1816) portrait: Public characters iii 134–5 (1824) portrait; Belgravia xxi 216–28 (1873).

PHILLIPS, Charles Palmer (son of Wm. Edward Phillips, governor of Prince of Wales’s island). b. 1822; educ. Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1845; barrister L.I. 29 Jany. 1846; chief sec. to lord chancellor Chelmsford Feb. 1859; a revising barrister for city of London 1864; sec. to lunacy comrs. Dec. 1865 to April 1872; comr. in lunacy April 1872 to death; author of The law concerning lunatic idiots 1858; The law of copyright 1863. d. Elstree 27 Sept. 1895.

PHILLIPS, David (son of a ship builder). b. Aberarth, Cardiganshire 19 Jany. 1831; articled to T. R. Guppy, civil engineer 1846; in the steam factory at Portsmouth dockyard 1853–5; assistant engineer in service of P. and O.S.N. Co. at Bombay 1855, reclaimed the foreshore and built a dockyard 1861, superintending engineer 1865, chief engineer Hong Kong 1868–71; on commission on corrosion of boilers in the navy 1874; on the Thunderer boiler explosion committee 1876; experimented on boiler explosions etc. 1876 to death; M.I.C.E. 14 Jany. 1868. d. Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire 31 May 1894. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. cxviii 450–2 (1894).

PHILLIPS, Elizabeth (dau. of Thomas Rouse, lessee of Grecian theatre, London, or of lieutenant James Rous of Fulham, Middlesex). b. 1810; exhibited 7 pictures at R.A., 4 at B.I., and 27 at Suffolk st. 1832–78; assisted her husband in his panoramas of The Ganges and of The Queen’s visit to Ireland; among her better known pictures are The Dutch collection, Grandfather’s cup and The Erasmus chapel in Westminster abbey; m. 1837 Philip Phillips, the artist, he d. 29 May 1864; resided at Stockwell, South London. d. 28 Jany. 1887. Ellen C. Clayton’s English female artists ii 230–4 (1876); A. Graves’ Dictionary of artists (1895) 218.

PHILLIPS, George (3 son of Francis Phillips of Dunwich, Suffolk, farmer). b. Otley, Suffolk 11 Jany. 1804; master in Woodbridge gr. sch.; master in Worcester gr. sch. to 1824; entered Magdalen hall Oxf. 19 June 1824; migrated to Queen’s coll. Camb. 25 Oct. 1825; eighth wrangler 1829, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832, B.D. 1839, D.D. 1859, scholar of his college 1827, fellow 1830–46, tutor to 1846, president Sept. 1857 to death; R. of Sandon, Essex 1846–57, restored the church; vice-chancellor of Camb. 1861–2; founded and endowed a scholarship at Queen’s coll. of the annual value of £40 in 1887; placed a clock called the Phillips clock in the tower of Otley parish church 1887; author of A brief treatise on the use of a case of instruments 1823, 2 ed. 1830; A compendium of algebra 1824; The elements of euclid 1826; Summation of series by definite integrals 1832; A commentary on the Psalms, 2 vols. 1846, 2 ed. 1872; Short sermons on old Messianic texts, Cambridge 1863; Mar Yâkúb’s Scholia on the Old Testament 1864; Mar Yâkúb’s Letter on Syriac orthography 1869; A Syriac grammar 1866; The doctrine of Addac the apostle 1876. d. president’s lodge, Queen’s college, Cambridge 5 Feb. 1892. bur. Mullingar, co. Westmeath. Cambridge Review 11 Feb. 1892 p. 192; I.L.N. 13 Feb. 1892 p. 197 portrait.

PHILLIPS, George Lort (1 son of John Lort Phillips, d. 1839). b. 4 July 1811; educ. Harrow 1825 etc. and Trin. coll. Camb.; sheriff of Pembrokeshire 1843; M.P. Pembrokeshire 19 Jany. 1861 to death. d. of injuries received while hunting Lawrenny park, near Pembroke 30 Oct. 1866.

PHILLIPS, George Robert. b. 19 Dec. 1820; cornet 5 Madras cavalry 9 Oct. 1839, captain 23 Nov. 1856; major Madras staff corps 18 Feb. 1861, lieut. col. 18 June 1865; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; L.G. 14 Jany. 1887. d. Hampstead 24 Jany. 1891.

PHILLIPS, George Searle. b. Peterborough Jany. 1816; educ. Trin coll. Camb.; on staff of the New York World and the Herald in New York 1836, returned to England 1837; settled at Sturton, Lincolnshire 1838, a lecturer, removed to Tuxford, Notts. 1842, and to Leeds 1844; second master in school of Mechanics’ institute Leeds 1844; edited the Leeds Times 1845; secretary of the People’s college at Huddersfield 1846; lecturer to the Yorkshire union of mechanics’ institutes and literary societies 1854; on the staff of the Chicago Tribune; literary editor of the New York Sun some years; confined in the Trenton lunatic asylum 1873, and in the Morristown asylum New Jersey 1876 to death; author under the pseudonym January Searle of The life, character, and genius of Ebenezer Elliott the corn-law rhymer 1850, 2 ed. 1852; Chapters in the history of a life 1850; Leaves from Sherwood forest 1850; The country sketch book of pastoral scenes 1851; Memoirs of William Wordsworth 1852; Emerson, his life and writings 1855; edited The history of Pel Verjuice by C. R. Pemberton 1853; author of A guide to Peterborough cathedral 1843, 4 ed. 1853; The gypsies of the Danes’ dyke 1864; The American republic foreshadowed in scripture 1864; Chicago and her churches 1868; edited with F. R. Lees The truth seeker in literature 1846–8. d. Morristown asylum New Jersey 14 Jany. 1889. F. Ross’s Celebrities of the Yorkshire wolds (1878) 128; Appleton’s Annual Cyclopædia (1890) 644.

PHILLIPS, Giles Firman. b. 1780; painted landscapes in water-colours, especially views on the Thames; a member of the new water-colour society; exhibited 17 pictures at R.A., 10 at B.I., and 50 at Suffolk st. gallery 1830–58; author of Principles of effect and colour as applicable to landscape painting 1838, 3 ed. 1840; A practical treatise on drawing and painting in water-colours 1839. d. 31 March 1867.

PHILLIPS, Henry (son of Richard Phillips, barrister then an actor, m. 1800 Miss Barnett, a singer). b. Bristol 13 Aug. 1801; sang soprano parts at the Haymarket and Drury Lane, known as the singing Roscius 1810–17; a bass in Bishop’s Law of Java at Covent Garden 11 May 1822, also in Arne’s Artaxerxes 1823; his voice became baritone; sang the part of Caspar on the first night of Der Freischutz at Covent Garden 14 Oct. 1824; took part in provincial musical festivals; principal bass at the concerts of ancient music 1825; entered the choir of Bavarian chapel 1825; sang as Hofer in The Tell of the Tyrol at Drury Lane 1830; in Milner’s Gustave the third at Covent Garden 11 Nov. 1833; at the Lyceum in Loder’s Nourjahad 21 July 1834, and in Barnett’s Mountain sylph 25 Aug. 1834; gave table entertainments 1843–63; visited U.S. of America 1844, produced Adventures in America, a vocal entertainment 1845; sang at Philharmonic concert 15 March 1847; a scena was composed for him by Mendelssohn to words from Ossian ‘On Lena’s gloomy heath’; retired at a farewell concert 25 Feb. 1863; a teacher of singing in Birmingham and then in London; composed music to many songs, most popular being The best of all good company 1840, and Shall I wastynge in despaire; The emigrant ship 1845; his name is attached to upwards of 50 pieces; author of The true enjoyment of angling with music to the songs 1843; Hints on declamation 1848. d. 192 Dalston lane, Dalston, London 8 Nov. 1876. bur. Woking cemet. H. Phillips’s Musical recollections, 2 vols. (1864) portrait; Actors by daylight ii 137 (1838) portrait; The Oddfellow i 53 (1839) portrait; I.L.N. ii 239 (1843) portrait; Era 19 Nov. 1876 p. 5.

PHILLIPS, Henry Richard. Horse dealer at 44 Cross st. Finsbury, London 1835–42, and at 9 Albert gate, Knightsbridge 1849 to death; a very large buyer of horses; held the contract for supplying horses for the cavalry of the British army; Napoleon III was one of his best customers and called a favourite horse Phillips in his honour. d. London 10 Sept. 1886.

PHILLIPS, Henry Wyndham (younger son of Thomas Phillips, portrait painter 1770–1845). b. 1820; pupil of his father; painted a few scriptural subjects 1845–9; painted portraits of Charles Kean as Louis XI for the Garrick club, Dr. Wm. Prout for the royal college of physicians, Robert Stephenson for the Institution of civil engineers and of Nassau Wm. Senior; secretary of Artists’ general benevolent institution 13 years; exhibited 76 pictures at R.A. and 13 at B.I. 1838–68; his picture The Magdalen has been engraved by George Zobel and his Dreamy thoughts by W. J. Edwards. d. Hollow Combe, Sydenham, Kent 8 Dec. 1868. Athenæum ii 802 (1868); Art Journal (1869) 29.

PHILLIPS, James (son of rev. Richard Phillips). b. Nevendon, Essex 22 April 1792; went to U.S. of America 1818; taught in Harlem, New York; professor of mathematics in univ. of North Carolina 1826 to death; prepared treatises on algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and kindred subjects. d. Chapel Hill, North Carolina 16 March 1867.

PHILLIPS, John (son of John Phillips 1769–1808, an officer of excise). b. Marden, Wiltshire 25 Dec. 1800; employed by his uncle Wm. Smith the geologist in London; arranged the fossils in the museum at York 1824, keeper of the museum 1824–40, hon. curator 1840–4; F.G.S. 1828, Wollaston medallist 1845, president 1859–60; F.R.S. 10 April 1834; secretary of York philosophical society to 1840; assistant secretary of the British Association 1832–59; professor of geology at King’s college London 1834–44, and at Trin. coll. Dublin 1844–5; employed on the geological survey 1840–4; matric. from Magdalen coll. Oxf. 25 Oct. 1853, M.A. 1853, D.C.L. 13 June 1866; hon. fellow of his college May 1868 to death; deputy at Oxford for Wm. Buckland the professor of geology 1853–6, reader in geology 1856, professor 1857; keeper of the Ashmolean museum, Oxford 1854–70; curator of the new museums at Oxford 1857; hon. LL.D. Dublin 1857 and Cambridge 1866; president of British Assoc. 1865; admitted to freedom of the Turner’s company April 1874; author of Illustrations of the geology of Yorkshire, 2 vols. 1829–36; A guide to geology 1834; Geological map of the British isles 1842; Memoirs of William Smith, 2 vols. 1844; Life on the earth, its origin and succession 1860; Vesuvius 1869; Geology of Oxford and the valley of the Thames 1871, and of more than a hundred papers in scientific periodicals. d. from the result of a fall on the staircase All Soul’s college Oxford 24 April 1874. bur. the cemetery, York 30 April, bust in museum at Oxford, and portrait at Geological soc. London. Geological Mag. (1870) 301 portrait, and (1874) 240; A. Geikie’s Life of sir R. I. Murchison i 130, ii 106, 374 (1875); Athenæum 2 May 1874 pp. 597–8;. I.L.N. xlvii 288 (1865) portrait, lxiv 457, 458 (1874) portrait; Graphic ix 490, 505 (1874) portrait; Nature ix 510 (1874).

PHILLIPS, John Arthur (son of John Phillips, mineral agent 1793–1851). b. Polgooth, near St. Austell, Cornwall 18 Feb. 1822; studied at the Ecole des mines, Paris from Dec. 1844, a graduate 1846; employed in a French colliery 1846–8; mining engineer and consulting metallurgist in London 1848–68; professor of metallurgy at college for civil engineers Putney 1848–50; went to California 1853, 1865 and 1866; manager of works of Widnes Metal company at Liverpool 1868–77; F.G.S. 1872, vice-president to death; M.I.C.E. 6 Dec. 1870; M.C.S. 1847; F.R.S. 2 June 1881; author of A manual of metallurgy 1852, 3 ed. 1859; Gold mining and assaying 1852, 2 ed. 1853; Records of mining and metallurgy 1857; Elements of metallurgy 1874, 3 ed. 1891; with W. H. Dorman edited W. Truran’s The iron manufacture of Great Britain, 2 ed. 1862; and of many papers in scientific periodicals 1842–86. d. 18 Fopstone road, Kensington, London 4 Jany. 1887. Boase and Courtney’s Bill Cornub. i 481–2 (1874), iii 1312 (1882); Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxix 481–4 (1887); Proc. of Royal Soc. xliii pp. iii–iv (1888); Academy xxxi 29 (1887); Nature xxxv 248 (1887).

PHILLIPS, John Jones. b. Wales 1843; educ. Mill hill school, and at Guy’s hospital 1860; matric. at Univ. of London 1860, M.B. 1864, M.D. 1867; M.R.C.S. 1864; L.R.C.P. 1864, M.R.C.P. 1868; assistant obstetric physician at Guy’s 1869; physician to hospital for sick children and to Royal maternity charity 1869; sec. to the Hunterian and then to the Obstetrical soc. 1871 to death; practised at 26 Finsbury sq. London; joint editor of Guy’s hospital reports for some time. d. 26 Finsbury sq. London 22 Jany. 1874. Obstetrical Journal Feb. 1874 pp. 774–6; Lancet 31 Jany. 1874 p. 182.

PHILLIPS, John Roland (only son of David Phillips of Cilgerran, Pembrokeshire). b. Cilgerran 18 June 1844; in a solicitor’s office at Cardigan; won the prize at Cardigan eisteddfod Aug. 1866 for the best essay on the History of Cilgerran, printed 1867; the first secretary of the Cymrodorion society when revived in 1873; barrister L.I. 10 June 1870; deputy associate on South Wales circuit 1877–80; stipendiary magistrate of West Ham, near London 22 June 1881 to death, being the first under the act giving local boards power to appoint magistrates; author of A list of the sheriffs of Cardiganshire 1868; Memoirs of the civil war in Wales and the marches, 2 vols. 1874; An attempt at a concise history of Glamorgan 1879; collated and restored monuments of Howard family for duke of Norfolk; collected records for sir W. Harcourt’s commission on city of London 1884. d. The Limes, South Hampstead 3 June 1887. Bygones in Wales (1887) 323; Law Journal 11 June 1887 p. 345.

PHILLIPS, John Samuel (son of Samuel Phillips, an officer in the Middle Temple). b. in the Middle Temple, London 23 March 1799; educ. St. Paul’s school 1808–14; law stationer in partnership with James Taverner Reed of Bishop’s court, Lincoln’s inn; freeman of the city 1820; a liveryman of the Cooks’ co.; member of Metropolitan board of works for the Strand district 1857 to death; member of the court of the Cambridge asylum for soldiers’ widows to death; a founder of the Law writers’ institution and president 1846 to death. d. 54 Euston sq. London 4 Jany. 1879. bur. Highgate cemet. 11 Jany. Metropolitan 11 Jany. 1879 pp. 26, 29.

PHILLIPS, Philip. b. 1802 or 1803; pupil of Clarkson Stanfield; painted dioramas for Surrey theatre 1833–40; exhibited 17 landscapes at R.A., 24 at B. I., and 42 at Suffolk st. gallery 1826–65; purchased Duke’s Arms tavern, Upper Lambeth Marsh, Surrey, where he built the Bower saloon, opened for musical performances June 1839, from which he retired 1841; principal scenic artist to Lyceum, Haymarket, and Adelphi theatres; went with the queen to Ireland 1–12 Aug. 1849, exhibited a moving diorama of this tour at Chinese gallery, Hyde Park corner 18 March 1850 to Aug. 1850; painted for Albert Smith part of the scenery for his entertainment China 1859. d. Gloucester house, Larkhall lane, Clapham 29 May 1864. Era 5 June 1864 p. 10; Sunday Times 24 March 1850 p. 3.

PHILLIPS, Richard (son of James Phillips of George yard, Lombard st. London, printer and bookseller). b. London 1778; educ. as a chemist and druggist under Wm. Allen of Plough court; a founder of the Askesian soc. 1796, and of Geological soc. 1807; lecturer on chemistry at London hospital 1817; professor of chemistry at royal military college, Sandhurst 1818; lecturer on chemistry at Grainger’s school of medicine, Southwark 1818; F.R.S. 14 March 1822; chemist and curator of Museum of practical geology, Jermyn st. London 1839 to death; F.C.S. 1841, president 1849–50; discovered the true nature of uranite 1823; edited with E. W. Brayley The annals of philosophy 1821–6; one of the editors of The philosophical magazine 1827–50; author of An analysis of the Bath water 1806; An experimental examination of the last edition of the Pharmacopœia Londinensis 1811; Remarks on the editio altera of the Pharmacopœia Londinensis 1816; wrote all the chemical articles in the Penny cyclopædia, and about 70 papers in scientific journals. d. 2 Champion place, Grove lane, Camberwell, London 11 May 1851. bur. Norwood cemetery 16 May. J. Bell and T. Redwood’s Pharmacy (1880) 206; I.L.N. 14 June 1851 pp. 547, 548 portrait.

PHILLIPS, Richard Empson (son of a livery stable keeper). b. Great Ormond st. Queen sq. London 2 April 1820; in a wine merchant’s offices 1835; played Edmund Esdale in the Charcoal burner, Pantheon theatre, Catherine st. May 1840; acted with Henderson’s company at Ludlow 1840, and in other provincial towns to 1842; appeared as a negro singer and dancer at theatre royal, Ipswich Jany. 1843; stage manager Manchester theatre July 1843, played Henry Bertram to Miss Cushman’s Meg Merrilies; manager of theatres at Sheffield and Chester; acted Iago at Aberdeen with great success; actor and stage manager Grecian theatre, London 3 May 1847, where he acted to Sept. 1858 when he received a testimonial; aided J. W. Anson in establishing Dramatic, equestrian and musical sick fund 1855; manager for E. T. Smith of Her Majesty’s theatre Dec. 1860. Theatrical times 4 Sept. 1847 pp. 273–4 portrait; The Players 5 Jany. 1861 p. 207–8 portrait.

PHILLIPS, Robert Newton. b. 24 June 1815; ensign 53 foot 27 May 1836, captain 12 Jany. 1844; capt. 43 foot 5 Jany. 1844, lieut. col. 29 July 1853; lieut. col. 94 foot 21 April 1854; lieut. col. provisional battalion, Chatham 26 Sept. 1854, placed on h.p. 6 Feb. 1863; col. 65 foot 13 July 1876 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; served in Caffre war 1851–3, medal. d. Pipe Grange, Lichfield 21 Dec. 1888.

PHILLIPS, Samuel (3 son of Philip Phillips of 71 St. James’s st. London, glass manufacturer, d. 1837). b. 28 Dec. 1814; recited before duke of Sussex who became his patron; declaimed Collins’s Ode to the passions at Haymarket theatre; played in Richard the third at Covent Garden theatre 23 June 1829; studied at univ. of Gottingen 1835–6; pensioner at Sidney Sussex coll. Camb. 12 Sept. 1836, left on death of his father early in 1837; lamp manufacturer with his brother Ralph Phillips at 190 and 223 Regent st. London 1837, they became bankrupt 20 Nov. 1840; tutor to lord Francis Bruce 1843; wrote two leaders a week for the Morning Herald 1845–6; wrote literary reviews for the Times about 1845 to death; secretary to the Richmond association for support of the farmers who had been injured through fiscal changes 1845; proprietor and editor of John Bull weekly paper 1845–6; contributed to the Literary gazette 1851–4; LL.D. Gottingen 1852; literary director of the Crystal palace co. 1853 to death, and treasurer for a time; suggested formation of a society for promoting Assyrian archæological exploration Aug. 1853; author of Caleb Stukely, 3 vols. 1844 anon. (reprinted from Blackwood’s Mag.) published with his name 1862; The literature of the rail 1851; Essays from the Times 1851 anon.; A second series of essays from the Times 1854 anon.; both volumes were republished in 1871 as by Samuel Phillips, B.A. with his portrait; Guide to the Crystal palace and park 1854, 3 ed. 1854; We’re all low people there 1854; Memoir of the duke of Wellington 1856. d. of a rupture of a vessel on the lungs Brighton 14 Oct. 1854. bur. Sydenham church 21 Oct. left about £11,000. Bentley’s Miscellany xxxviii 129–36 (1855); Tait’s Mag. Jany. 1855 pp. 41–2; Literary Gazette (1854) 906–7; G.M. Dec. 1854 pp. 635–6.

PHILLIPS, Thomas (son of Thomas Phillips of the excise department). b. London 6 July 1760; apprenticed to an apothecary at Hay in Breconshire; pupil of John Hunter; M.R.C.S.; surgeon’s mate of the Danae frigate 1780, and then surgeon of the Hind; entered service of East India co. 1782; inspector of hospitals in colony of Botany Bay 1796–8; superintendent surgeon Bengal 1802–17; member of Calcutta medical board to 1817; presented upwards of 20,000 volumes to St. David’s college, Lampeter, established 6 scholarships at the college and left by his will £7,000 to found a Phillips’ professorship in natural science; founded the Welsh educational institution at Llandovery in Carmarthenshire 1847, endowed the library with £140 a year, gave 7,000 books and left it about £11,000. d. 5 Brunswick sq. London 13 June 1851. bur. in catacombs of St. Pancras church 20 June. G.M. June 1851 pp. 655–6.

PHILLIPS, Sir Thomas (eld. son of Thomas Phillips of Llanellan house, Monmouthshire). b. Llanelly, Breconshire 1801; solicitor in partnership with Thomas Prothero at Newport, Monmouthshire June 1824 to Jany. 1840; mayor of Newport 1838–9, read the riot act from the Westgate inn when John Frost entered the town at the head of 7,000 chartists 4 Nov. 1839, when he was wounded with slugs in the arm and hip; knighted free of expense at Windsor castle 9 Dec. 1839; voted freedom of city of London 26 Feb. 1840, admitted 7 April 1840; barrister I.T. 10 June 1842, bencher 5 May 1865 to death; Q.C. 17 Feb. 1865; the arbitrator in many law suits; built a church and schools at Court-y-hella, near Newport for the use of his colliers; member of the National society 1848; president of council of Society of arts; author of Wales, the language, social condition, moral character, and religious opinions of the people considered in their relation to education 1849; The life of James Davies, a village schoolmaster 1850, 2 ed. 1852. d. 77 Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 26 May 1867. bur. Llanellan. J. Morgan’s Four biographical sketches (1892), Sir T. Phillips pp. 159–79; A.R. (1839) 314–6, and (1840) 203–19; Law Times xliii 48, 110 (1867); G.M. July 1867 p. 107.

PHILLIPS, Watts. b. Nov. 1825; the only pupil of George Cruikshank 1844; resided in Paris 1845–66, with occasional visits to London; drew the cartoons for Diogenes comic weekly paper Jany. 1853 to June 1854, and wrote in it under signature of The ragged philosopher; his book The wild tribes of London 1855 was dramatised by Wm. Travers and produced at City of London theatre; illustrated several works; wrote for the Daily news and London journal; author of the following plays, Joseph Chavigny, Adelphi theatre May 1857; The poor strollers, Adelphi 1858; The dead heart, Adelphi 10 Nov. 1859, revived by Henry Irving at Lyceum 1893; Paper wings, Adelphi 29 Feb. 1860, revived at Olympic 15 Feb. 1869; A story of the Forty five, Drury Lane 12 Nov. 1860; His last victory, St. James’s 21 June 1862; Camilla’s husband, Olympic 14 Dec. 1862, the last piece in which Robson appeared; Paul’s return, Princess’s 15 Feb. 1864; A woman in mauve, Haymarket 18 March 1865; Theodora, actress and empress, Surrey 9 April 1866; The Huguenot captain, Princess’s 2 July 1866; Lost in London, Adelphi 16 March 1867; Nobody’s child, Surrey 14 Sept. 1867; Maud’s peril, Adelphi 23 Oct. 1867; Land rats and water rats, Surrey 5 Sept. 1868; Not guilty, Queens 13 Feb. 1869; Fettered, Holborn 17 Feb. 1869; On the jury, Princess’s 16 Dec. 1871; Amos Clark, Queen’s 19 Oct. 1872; wrote in Town talk a novel entitled The honour of the family, published under title of Amos Clark or the poor dependent 1862; wrote many novels in the Family herald and other periodicals; author of An accommodation bill 1850; The hooded snake, a story of the secret police 1860; Ida Lee, or the child of the wreck by Fairfax Balfour 1864; Who will save her, 3 vols. 1874. d. 45 Redcliffe road, West Brompton, London 3 Dec. 1874. bur. Brompton cemetery 8 Dec. Watt’s Phillips, artist and playwright. By E. Watts Phillips (1891) portrait; J. Coleman’s Truth about the Dead heart (1890); Dutton Cook’s Nights at the play (1883) 159–62; Illust. sporting news vi 161 (1867) portrait; I.L.N. lxv 534, 558, 585 (1874) portrait; Saturday Review lxxii 728 (1891); M. H. Spielman’s History of Punch (1895) 56, 589.

PHILLIPS, William Henry. b. 1808; civil engineer; inventor of Phillips’s fire annihilator patented 4 June 1844, 16 April 1849, and 5 Oct. 1865; discovered numerous important scientific problems; wrote On aërial locomotion by machinery without gaseous buoyancy, Report of Aëronautical soc. vi 53–4 (1871). d. 119 Linden Grove, Nunhead, Surrey 28 Nov. 1884.

PHILLIPS, William Lovell. b. Bristol 26 Dec. 1816; chorister Bristol cathedral 1822–31; pupil at Royal academy of music, London 1831–8, learning singing from Gaetano Crivelli and the violoncello and harmony from Charles Lucas; sub-professor of piano, harmony, and violoncello, professor 1831, associate honorary member; musical director at Olympic theatre, and at Princess’s; member of orchestra of Her Majesty’s theatre, Philharmonic soc. and Sacred harmonic soc.; organist St. Catherine’s collegiate church, Regent’s park; author of New and complete instruction for the violoncello 1846; composer of The bridge England, song 1840; As you a nutting go, song 1844; The ivy green, a song 1844; Soft be thy slumbers, serenade 1846; I’m a little laughing gipsy 1857; The two rosebuds 1859; his name is attached to upwards of 70 compositions; under the name of Philip Lovell he wrote Songs of childhood 1843 and other songs; one of the best violoncello players of his day. d. 67 Oakley sq. Camden town, London 19 March 1860. W. W. Cazalet’s History of royal academy of music (1854) 311; Era 25 March 1860 p. 10.

PHILLIPS, William Page (eld. son of Wm. Page Thomas Phillips of Melton Grange, Woodbridge, Suffolk, b. 1833). b. Brent-bridge house, Hendon, Middlesex 5 Aug. 1858; educ. Eton 1871–7; rowed No. 6 in the Eton eight 1876 and was second captain of the boats 1877; member of Kingston rowing club stroked their eight and four at Henley regatta 1877; ran 150 yards in 15 seconds at Lillie Bridge and 120 yards twice in 12 seconds at Stamford Bridge 22 May 1880; ran 440 yards in 49 seconds at Aston ground 16 July 1881, 120 yards in 11 seconds at Stamford bridge 25 March 1882, and 300 yards in 32 seconds at Stamford bridge 20 May 1882, these five performances were all bests on record; lieutenant West Suffolk militia 18 March 1882 to death. d. 26 March 1884. bur. Woodbridge 1 April. Sporting Mirror Oct. 1881 pp. 85–8 portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news 5 April 1884 p. 72, 19 April pp. 113, 120 portrait.

PHILLOTT, Charles George Rodney. b. 1782; entered navy 27 Jany. 1794; served on board the Amphion 32 guns in the Mediterranean 1802–10, shewing great gallantry in many attacks on the enemy; in command of the Primrose 18 guns, served in the Mediterranean, the North sea, and America 1810–18, retired 1 Oct. 1846; captain 7 Dec. 1818; retired admiral 22 Nov. 1862. d. 39 Hans place, Chelsea 11 March 1863.

PHILLOTT, Francis (youngest son of James Phillott 1749–1815, rector of Stanton Priors, Somerset). b. Stanton Priors 29 Oct. 1821; educ. Winchester and St. John’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1844, M.A. 1861; C. of Saltford, Cambs. 1845–52; domestic chaplain to earl of Normanton 1853–9; C. of Huntley, Gloucs. 1865–6; C. of Lolworth, Cambs. 1872–7. author of A litany hymn for the use of church schools 1862; The textual witness to the truth and divine authority of the Pentateuch 1863; Sacred memories, the Athanasian creed metrically pharaphrased 1870. d. 9 Pierpont place, Dawlish 4 Sept. 1878.

PHILLOTT, Henry Wright (3 son of Johnson Phillott of Whitcombe, Gloucs. b. 1816; educ. Charterhouse 1827–33, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., student 1835–51; B.A. 1838, M.A. 1840; assistant master Charterhouse; R. of Staunton-on-Wye, Herefordshire 1850–87; rural dean of Weobly 1854–87; prebendary of Hereford 1864; chancellor of choir of Hereford cathedral 1886 to death; resident canon of Hereford 1887 to death; wrote the beautiful Carmen Carthusianum, which was set to music by Wm. Horsley; author with W. L. Bevan of Mediæval geography, an essay in illustration of the Hereford mappa mundi 1873; author of Selections from English prose writers 1849; Hereford 1888 in Diocesan histories. d. The precincts, Hereford 4 Dec. 1895. Guardian 11 Dec. 1895 p. 1908.

PHILLPOTTS, Arthur Thomas (son of succeeding). b. 23 May 1815; 2 lieut. R.A. 21 June 1834, colonel 15 Dec. 1864, col. commandant 26 Nov. 1880 to death; commanded the R.A. at Aldershot 1 March 1865 to 6 June 1867 and 1 July 1871 to 18 April 1873; inspector general of artillery at head quarters 1 April 1877 to 31 Aug. 1880; M.G. 6 March 1868; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 23 May 1882. d. Lawhitton rectory, near Launceston 2 Sept. 1890.

PHILLPOTTS, Henry (2 son of John Phillpotts, brick factor at Bridgwater, afterwards landlord of the Bell inn, Gloucester 1744–1814). b. Bridgwater 6 May 1778; educ. Gloucester college school; scholar of C.C. coll. Oxf. 7 Nov. 1791; B.A. 1795, M.A. 1778, B.D. and D.D. 1821; fellow of Magdalen coll. 25 July 1795 to 27 Oct. 1804, hon. fellow 2 Feb. 1862 to death; prælector of moral philosophy 25 July 1800; one of the examiners for honours 1802 and 1803; select preacher before the univ. Nov. 1804; V. of Kilmarsdon, near Bath 1 Sept. 1804 to April 1806; R. of Stainton-le-Street, Durham 24 Dec. 1805; chaplain to bishop of Durham 1806–26; V. of Bishop Middleham, Durham 24 July 1805 to 1808; R. of Gateshead 10 May 1808, master of Gateshead hospital 12 May 1808; held ninth prebendal stall in Durham cathedral 24 July 1809, the second stall 30 Dec. 1815 to 20 Sept. 1820, and the sixth stall 22 Jany. 1831 to death; chaplain of St. Margaret, Durham 28 Sept. 1810; rector of Stanhope-on-the-Wear, Durham 20 Sept. 1820 to Jany. 1831, with an income of £4,000, built a parsonage at cost of £12,000; dean of Chester 13 May 1828; bishop of Exeter 22 Nov. 1830 to death, consecrated in Lambeth palace chapel 2 Jany. 1831, installed 14 Jany.; visitor of Exeter coll. Oxf. 1831 to death; treasurer of Exeter cathedral 27 Jany. 1831; prebendary of Exeter 27 Feb. 1831; carried on successful lawsuits against rev. John Shore 1843, and rev. H. E. Head 1838; refused to institute rev. G. C. Gorham to living of Brampford Speke 1847, Gorham appealed to the privy council and was instituted 8 March 1850, this matter was discussed in 35 publications; spent about £25,000 in litigation; gave £10,000 to found a theological coll. at Exeter; supported Miss Sellon’s sisterhood at Devonport 1852; presented his library to the clergy of Cornwall, library opened Truro 1871; executed the resignation of his see 9 Sept. 1869, which did not take effect on account of his death; author of Letters to C. Butler on his Book of the Roman catholic church 1822; A letter to G. Canning on catholic emancipation 1827, 6 ed. 1827; A letter to an English layman on the coronation oath 1828; A letter to the archbishop of Canterbury 1850, this letter, in which he excommunicates the archbishop, refers chiefly to the Gorham case; A pastoral letter on the present state of the church 1851, 8 ed. 1851; Correspondence with T. B. Macaulay on statements in his History of England 1860; his name is attached to upwards of 75 publications to many of which replies were printed. d. at Bishopstowe palace, Torquay 18 Sept. 1869. bur. St. Mary’s, Torquay. R. N. Shutte’s Life of right rev. Henry Phillpotts, vol. 1 (1863) portrait; Annual register (1869) 162–4; Edinburgh Rev. Jany. 1852 pp. 59–94; Portraits of eminent conservatives 1834 portrait xx; Church of England photograph portrait gallery 1859 portrait xii; Illust. News of the world 1861, vol. viii, portrait xxvii; F. Arnold’s Our bishops and deans i 180–206 (1875); I.L.N. ii 191 (1843) portrait, lv 300, 302 (1869) portrait; St. Stephen’s by Mask (1839) 173–82; The Church goer, Bristol (1847) 242–52.

PHILLPOTTS, William John (eld. son of preceding). b. Bishop Middleham, Durham 27 Jany. 1807; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1832; V. of Uny Lelant with Towednack, Cornwall 4 Nov. 1831 to Sept. 1832; V. of Grimley, Worcs. Sept. 1832 to 1845; prebendary of Exeter 21 Nov. 1840; archdeacon of Cornwall 6 Jany. 1845 to death; V. of Gluvias with Budock, Cornwall 25 March 1845 to death; chancellor of diocese of Exeter Oct. 1860 to death; precentor of Exeter cathedral 1870; author of An answer to the infidels, a charge to the clergy 1864; Reply to canon Farrar’s Eternal hope 1878. d. St. Gluvias vicarage 10 July 1888.

PHILP, Elizabeth (elder dau. of the succeeding). b. Falmouth 17 Jany. 1825; studied singing under Manuel Garcia and Madame Marchesi, and composition under Dr. Ferdinand Hiller of Cologne; a teacher of singing in London; author of How to sing an English ballad 1869, 4 ed. 1870; composer of O, had I the voice of a bird 1855; I once had a sweet little doll 1867; Lillie’s good night 1870; At rest 1884; her name is attached to 150 pieces of music. d. 67 Gloucester crescent, Regent’s park, London 26 Nov. 1885. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. (1878–82) 487–91, 1313; Boase’s Collect. Cornub. (1890) 735, 1808; F. Hays’ Women of the day (1885) 159.

PHILP, James (son of Robert Kemp Philp, unitarian minister 1769–1850). b. Falmouth 4 Oct. 1800; printer and publisher Falmouth to 1836, and at Bristol 1836–46; compiled A Panorama of Falmouth 1827, printed it himself and bound a copy with his own hands, which he presented to the duke of Clarence 1827; edited The christian child’s faithful friend 1829, which ran for some years; printed The selector or Cornish magazine, 4 vols. 1826–9, and The Falmouth packet 1829 etc. which he for sometime edited; celebrated his golden wedding 24 May 1874. d. 164 Tuffnell park road, London 23 April 1887. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. (1878–82) 491, 1313.

PHILP, Robert Kemp (son of Henry Philp of Falmouth 1793–1836). b. Falmouth 14 June 1819; employed by a printer at Bristol 1835; a newsvendor at Bath; placed in the stocks for selling a Sunday newspaper; edited with Henry Vincent The national vindicator, a Bath weekly paper 1838–42; a Chartist lecturer 1839; member of executive committee of the Chartists 1841–3; a delegate to the conference called by Joseph Sturge at Birmingham 27 Dec. 1842; a member of the national convention which sat in London from 12 April 1842, drew up the monster petition signed by 3,300,000 persons in favour of the confirmation of the charter, which was presented 2 May 1842; contributed to The Sentinel from its commencement 7 Jany. 1843; publisher at Great New st. Fetter lane, London 1845; sub-editor of The People’s journal 1846–8; edited The Family friend, a monthly periodical, afterwards fortnightly and weekly 1850–5; The family tutor 1851–3, Home companion 1852–6, and The Family treasury 1853–4; Diogenes, a weekly comic paper 1853–4; author of Enquire within upon everything 1856 etc. of which more than a million copies were sold; Notices to correspondents 1856; The reason why 1856; wrote The successful candidate, a two-act comedy 1852; The mountain rill 1850, and four other songs by him were set to music; his name as author and editor is attached to upwards of 40 publications. d. 21 Claremont sq. Islington 30 Nov. 1882. bur. Highgate cemet. Boase and Courtney’s Bibliotheca Cornubiensis (1874–82) 492–5 and 1313; The family treasury vol. 1 (1853) portrait.

PHILPOT, Benjamin. b. Laxfield, Suffolk 9 Jany. 1791; educ. Christ’s coll. Camb.; senior optime and B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815; fellow of Christ’s 1814; C. of Walpole, Suffolk 1815; archdeacon and vicar-general of Isle of Man 22 May 1832 to 1839; R. of Great Cressingham with Bodney, Norfolk 1839–59; V. of Lydney, Gloucs. 1859–71; R. of Dennington, Suffolk 1871–3; author of Ruth, six lectures 1854; Orpah and Ruth or nature and grace 1855; Nine lectures on the second advent of Christ 1866. d. Mona lodge, Oak hill, Surbiton 28 May 1889. bur. Lydney. Times 3 June 1889 p. 12.

PHILPOTT, Henry (younger son of Richard Philpott of Chichester). b. Chichester 17 Nov. 1807; educ. Chichester cathedral school and St. Catherine’s hall Cambridge, fellow 1829, assistant tutor, tutor, master 1845–60, hon. fellow 1887 to death; senior wrangler and 14th classic 1829; B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832, B.D. 1839, D.D. 1847; second Smith’s prizeman 1830; junior proctor 1834–5; Whitehall preacher 1837–9; examining chaplain to bishop of Ely 1844; canon of Norwich 1845–60; vice-chancellor of Cambridge 1846–7 and 1856–8; chaplain to prince Albert, chancellor of Cambridge 1848–60; bishop of Worcester 7 Jany. 1861, consecrated 25 March 1861, resigned Aug. 1890; vice-chairman of Cambridge univ. commission 1877, chairman 1878; provincial chaplain of Canterbury; clerk of closet in ordinary to the queen 26 June 1865 to death; admitted to honorary freedom and livery of Salter’s company 13 Dec. 1876; prosecuted R. W. Enraght, vicar of Holy Trinity, Birmingham for ritualistic practices 1879; edited Documents relating to St. Catherine’s college 1861; author of ten triennial charges 1862–89. d. The Elms, Cambridge 10 Jany. 1892. bur. St. Mary’s church, Hartlebury, Worcs. 15 Jany. Church portrait journal iv 65 (1883) portrait; I.L.N. xxxviii 303, 322 (1861) portrait, and 16 Jany. 1892 p. 70 portrait; Graphic 6 Sept. 1890 p. 271 portrait; Times 11 Jany. 1892 p. 7.

PHIN, Kenneth Macleay (son of the minister of Wick). b. Wick 1816; educ. Edinb. univ., D.D. 1869; parish minister of Galashiel 1841–69; a strong supporter of the Established church, opposed Dr. Robert Lee’s alterations in the forms and services of the church; convenor of the army and navy chaplains’ committee 1863, and of the home mission committee 1869 to death; took up his residence in Edinb. 1871; assessor in the university court 1867; moderator in the general assembly of the church 1877; author of Scottish episcopacy the pioneer of popery 1856. d. 13 Chalmers st. Edinburgh 12 Jany. 1888. The Times 13 Jany. 1888 p. 6; Scotsman 13 Jany. 1888 pp. 4, 5.

PHINN, Thomas (eld. son of Thomas Phinn, surgeon). b. Bath 1814; educ. Eton, captain of the school, and Exeter coll. Oxf., scholar 1836; B.A. 1838; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1840, bencher 1854 to death; Q.C. with patent of precedence July 1854; recorder of Portsmouth July 1848 to Jany. 1852; recorder of Devonport Jany. 1852 to May 1855; a commissioner to investigate the St. Alban’s bribery case 1851; M.P. Bath 1852–5; contested Bath 2 May 1859; contested Devonport 12 July 1865; presented with a silver tea and coffee service by the working men at the guildhall, Bath 29 Nov. 1859; counsel to board of stamps and taxes in the exchequer Feb. 1852; counsel to admiralty and advocate of the fleet April or May 1854; second secretary to admiralty May 1855, resigned April 1857; reappointed counsel to admiralty Nov. 1863. d. 50 Pall Mall, London 31 Oct. 1866. Law Times xlii 157 (1866); I.L.N. 19 Feb. 1853 p. 152 portrait.

PHIPPEN, James. b. 1785 or 1786; author of An account of the planting of the Royal Victoria grove at Tunbridge Wells 1835; The road guide from London to Tunbridge Wells 1836; Colbran’s New guide to Tunbridge Wells 1840; Descriptive sketch of Rochester, Chatham and their vicinities 1862. d. 29 July 1862.

PHIPPS, Augustus Frederick (4 son of first earl Mulgrave 1755–1831). b. The Admiralty, London 18 Oct. 1809; educ. Harrow 1820–7 and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1831; R. of Halesworth, Suffolk 1834–9; R. of Boxford 1839–53; R. of Euston with Fakenham Parva and Barnham 1851–82, all in Suffolk; rural dean of Blackburne 1862–83; chaplain in ordinary to the queen 18 June 1847 to death; hon. canon of Ely 1875 to death. d. 27 Eaton square, London 27 Jany. 1896.

PHIPPS, Sir Charles Beaumont (2 son of 1 earl Mulgrave 1755–1831). b. Mulgrave castle, Yorkshire 27 Dec. 1801; educ. Harrow 1813–18; ensign Scots fusilier guards 17 Aug. 1820, lieut. col. 26 May 1837, placed on h.p. 22 Jany. 1847; brevet colonel 11 Nov. 1851; secretary to his brother, first marquess of Normanby, when governor of Jamaica 1832–4; steward of his brother’s household when lord lieutenant of Ireland 1835–9; secretary to master general of the ordnance; equerry to the queen 1 Aug. 1846; private secretary to prince consort 1 Jany. 1847, and treasurer; keeper of the queen’s privy purse 10 Oct. 1849; treasurer and cofferer to prince of Wales 10 Oct 1849; receiver-general of duchy of Cornwall 26 May 1862 to death; one of the council to prince of Wales Jany. 1863 to death; secretary to prince of Wales as steward of Scotland 8 Feb. 1864; C.B. 6 Sept. 1853, K.C.B. 19 Jany. 1858; m. 25 June 1835 Margaret Anne, 2 dau. of Henry Bathurst, archdeacon of York, she was granted civil list pension of £150, 23 March 1866, and d. 13 April 1874. d. Ambassador’s court, St. James’s palace 24 Feb. 1866. bur. in catacombs of St. George’s chapel, Windsor 2 March. Full account of the presentation of a service of plate to the hon. col. C. B. Phipps in the town hall Scarbro’ Nov. 12, 1841, containing col. Phipps’ speech Scarbro’ 1841; G.M. April 1866 pp. 587–8; I.L.N. xlii 399, 400 (1862) portrait.

PHIPPS, Charles Paul (youngest son of Thomas Henry Hele Phipps 1771–1841). b. Leighton house, near Westbury, Wilts. 26 Sept. 1815; a merchant at Liverpool; M.P. Westbury 27 Feb. 1869 to 26 Jany. 1874; contested Westbury 3 Feb. 1874; sheriff of Wiltshire 1875. d. Chalcott, near Westbury 8 June 1880.

PHIPPS, Edmund (brother of sir C. B. Phipps 1801–66). b. the Admiralty, London 7 Dec. 1808; educ. Harrow 1819–25 and Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; barrister I.T. 15 June 1832, went northern circuit; recorder of Scarborough 1844 to death; Q.C. 23 June 1857; chief comr. of West Indian incumbered estates’ court Feb. 1857 to death; proprietor of a collection of Italian, Flemish and Dutch pictures; author of The monetary crisis, with a proposal for present relief and increased safety in future 1847; The adventure of a £1,000 note, or railway ruin reviewed 1848; King René’s daughter by H. Hertz rendered into English and a sketch of king René 1848, this was dramatised and acted at the theatre royal, Dublin 28 Nov. 1849; A few words on the three amateur budgets of Cobden, Macgregor and Wason 1849; Memoirs of the life of Robert Plumer Ward, 2 vols. 1850; A familiar dialogue on trusts, trustees, and trust societies between Mr. Arden and sir G. Ferrier 1854. d. 43 Wilton crescent, Belgrave sq. London 28 Oct. 1857. Waagen’s Treasures of art ii 226–29 (1854); G.M. iii 687 (1857).

PHIPPS, Edward James (brother of Charles Paul Phipps 1815–80). b. 1806; educ. Exeter coll. Oxf.,B.A. 1828; R. of Devizes 1833–53; R. of Stansfield, Suffolk 1853 to death; author of Short and easy answers, or a Sunday school catechism of the history and doctrines of the Old Testament 1832; A catechism on the Holy Scriptures 1850, 2 ed. 1860; The real question as to altar lights 1865. d. Stansfield 22 May 1884. bur. Stansfield 27 May.

PHIPPS, George Henry. b. 27 March 1807; with R. Stephenson and co. Newcastle-on-Tyne 1828; with R. Stephenson chalked out the sketch of the Rocket on the floor; employed at the Eyre Arms tavern, London on the drawings of London and Birmingham railway, made the Roade and Kilsby section; assistant to I. K. Brunel 2 years; manager for Alexander, Gordon and Co. in construction of beacons and lighthouses; again connected with R. Stephenson in examining wells in Liverpool and on works in Egypt; engineer of Western railway of Switzerland 1852; remodelled bridge over the Wear, Sunderland 1872; delivered a series of lectures at Chatham military school on practical engineering; M.I.C.E. 14 April 1840, Telford medal and premium 1864. d. 39 Stockwell park road, Surrey 11 Dec. 1888. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xcvi 330–3 (1889).

PHIPPS, Paul (3 son of Thomas Hele Phipps of Leighton house, Wiltshire). b. 18 Jany. 1789; cornet 1 dragoons 9 June 1804, major 19 Dec. 1826, placed on h.p. 27 Oct. 1829; served in the Peninsular war and at Waterloo; brevet lieut. col. 27 Oct. 1829; lieut. col. 3 dragoon guards 15 Sept. 1838, but sold out same day; K.H. 1836. d. Berrywood, Hampshire 22 Nov. 1858.

PHIPPS, Pickering (son of Edward Phipps, brewer, d. 1830). b. Bridge st. Northampton 14 March 1827; apprentice to a draper; senior partner in P. and R. Phipps, brewers, Northampton and Towcester, afterwards formed into a limited liability co.; member of Northampton town council 1834; mayor of Northampton 1858 and 1866; chairman of Northampton school board; M.P. Northampton 7 Feb. 1874 to 24 March 1880; contested Northampton 5 April 1880; M.P. Northamptonshire South 15 Feb. 1881 to 18 Nov. 1885; contested Northamptonshire, Midland division 2 Dec. 1885; purchased the Horton estate for £49,000 in 1887; president of the Farmers’ alliance. d. Collingtree Grange, Northamptonshire 14 Sept. 1890. bur. Collingtree 17 Sept. I.L.N. 27 Sept 1890 p. 390 portrait; Northampton Mercury 19 Sept. 1890 p. 6.