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Modern English biography, volume 2 (of 6), I-Q

VOLUME II. (continued 38)

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PETRE, Henry William (younger son of 11 baron Petre 1793–1850). b. Thorndon hall, near Brentwood, Essex 23 Jany. 1820; an original colonist of New Zealand, where he introduced well bred horses; postmaster general 1853; member of legislative council 1854; master, with a committee, of the Isle of Wight fox hounds; master of the Roothing stag hounds, Essex; author of An account of the settlement of the New Zealand company 1841, 5 ed. 1842; Half a century of British colonization 1889. d. the Manor house, Writtle, Chelmsford 3 Dec. 1889. Baily’s Mag. xxiv 63–4 (1874) portrait.

PETRIE, George (only child of James Petrie, portrait painter). b. Dublin 1 Jany. 1790; studied in the Dublin society’s art school 1802; painted landscapes of Irish scenery 1808 etc.; contributed 96 illustrations to Thomas Kitson’s Cromwell’s Excursions through Ireland, 3 vols. 1820; exhibited 2 landscapes at R.A. London 1818; A.R.H.A. 1828, librarian 1830, president resigned 1859; wrote many antiquarian articles in the Dublin examiner 1816, and in the Dublin Penny journal 1832–3; edited the Irish Penny journal 1840–41; M.R.I.A. 1828, where he read 27 papers, member of council 1829, gold medallist 3 times; attached to the ordnance survey of Ireland 1833–46; LL.D. Dublin 1847; granted civil list pension of £100, 13 Oct. 1849 and another pension of £100, 2 Jany. 1851; president of the Old Irish music soc. 1851; author of On the history of Tara hill 1839; A letter to sir W. R. Hamilton on charges made against the author by sir W. Betham 1840; The ecclesiastical antiquities of Ireland 1845; he illustrated G. N. Wright’s Ireland 1831; G. N. Wright’s An historical guide to Dublin 1821; G. N. Wright’s A guide to the county of Wicklow 1822, and Picturesque sketches of the landscapes and coast scenery of Ireland 1835. d. 7 Charlemont place, Dublin 17 Jany. 1866. bur. Mount Jerome cemetery, near Dublin. W. Stokes’s Life of George Petrie (1868); Graves’s Eloge on the late George Petrie (1866); W. Allingham’s Varieties in pose iii 161–73 (1893); I.L.N. xlviii 201, 202 (1866) portrait; Dublin univ. mag. xiv 638 portrait.

PETRIE, John Gordon. b. 1822; second lieut. Bombay artillery 11 June 1841, colonel 26 April 1866, retired 31 Dec. 1878; M.G. 1 Oct. 1877, hon. L.G. 31 Dec. 1878; C.B. 14 Aug. 1868; served in the Scinde campaign 1843, and the Indian mutiny 1857; commanded artillery in Abyssinia campaign from 1 Jany. 1868. d. 9 Cranbury terrace, Southampton 31 Dec. 1890.

PETRIE, Martin (2 son of commissary-general Wm. Petrie, d. 1842). b. the Manor house, King’s Langley, Herts. 1 June 1823; ensign royal Newfoundland companies 14 April 1846, captain 5 May 1854; captain 14 foot 26 Jany. 1855, placed on h.p. 10 Nov. 1856; captain 14 foot again 9 Jany. 1857, major 13 July 1867; assistant in topographical department of the war office 14 Jany. 1859 to 30 June 1864; major 97 foot 18 Dec. 1867, placed on h.p. 31 Aug. 1872; examiner in military education at the staff college 1864–82, and at the royal military college to 1882; author of The strength, composition, and organisation of the armies of Europe 1860; Organisation, composition and strength of the army of Great Britain 1863, 5 ed. 1867; Equipment of infantry 1865; Hospital equipment 1866. d. Hanover lodge, 14 Hanover terrace, Kensington park, London 19 Nov. 1892. bur. Kensal Green cemetery.

PETRIE, Samuel. b. 1797; deputy assistant commissary general 25 Dec. 1814, placed on h.p. 13 June 1828; C.B. 22 Nov. 1858. d. 113 Ebury st. Belgravia, London 2 March 1871.

PETTER, George William. b. Barnstaple 1824; printer 3 Crane court, Fleet st. London 1848, removed to Playhouse yard 1852 where Thomas Dixon Galpin joined him, then to La Belle Sauvage yard, Ludgate hill 1857; purchased John Cassell’s publications 1858 and took him in as a partner; started Cassell’s Illustrated family bible 1860 and The popular natural history 1859; J. Cassell d. 1865; started The Echo, the first halfpenny daily paper in London 8 Dec. 1868, sold it to baron Grant 1868; firm converted into a Limited co. 1883 when he retired from active work; author of Some objections to the repeal of the paper duty considered, in reply to Mr. H. G. Bonn’s pamphlet upon the question 1860. d. Leeholme, Bournemouth 16 Sept. 1888, his personal estate was valued at £520,560. Bookseller 9 Oct. 1888 p. 1021–22.

PETTIE, John (son of Alexander Pettie, tradesman). b. East Linton, Haddingtonshire 17 March 1839; studied at the Trustees’ academy Edinburgh June 1856; first exhibited at Scottish academy 1859 and at the R.A. London 1860; exhibited 58 pictures at R.A., 3 at B.I., and 1 at Suffolk st. 1860–80; shared a studio with W. Q. Orchardson in Pimlico, London 1862 and later at 37 Fitzroy sq. to 1865; A.R.A. 8 May 1866, R.A. Oct. 1873; resided at 21 St. John’s Wood road 1869–81 and at 2 Fitzjohn’s avenue 1881 to death; he illustrated J. De Liefde’s The postman’s bag 1862, 2 ed. 1867; Wordsworth’s Poems for the young 1863, 2 ed. 1866; C. Camden’s The boys of Axleford 1869; W. D. S. Moncrieff’s The abdication 1881; L. G. Seguin’s Rural England 1881; an exhibition of his works was held at Burlington house in winter of 1894. d. Hastings 21 Feb. 1893. bur. Paddington cemet. 27 Feb. I.L.N. xlviii 637, 638 (1866) portrait; Graphic lx 442, 456 (1874) portrait, and 25 Feb. 1893 p. 199 portrait; Art Journal xxi 265.

PETTIFER, Mary Ann (dau. of Henry Pettifer of 224 Holborn, London, cheese monger). b. Holborn July 1822; appeared at Olympic theatre as Cupid in burlesque of The Paphian bower 26 Dec. 1832; at Adelphi in Frankenstein; in the burletta The Frolics of the fairies, Victoria 1833; first walking lady at Strand theatre 1837; at Drury Lane in A night in the Bastille 4 Dec. 1839, and in Mary Stuart 22 Jany. 1840; played at the Garrick theatre, Leman st. Whitechapel as Virginius in Rogers’ burlesque Virginius the Rum-Un 1840; by her performance of William in Black-eyed Susan she established herself as a first class East-end favourite; m. 1841 John Bond Ratcliffe, lessee of Victoria theatre from 2 Sept. 1840, who d. about 1848; she acted at Victoria theatre in The Yew tree ruins 11 Jany. 1841; played again at the Garrick until it was burnt down 3 Nov. 1846; acted at the Effingham and the Pavilion; first appeared at the Britannia 21 Nov. 1853; latterly she played old women; was a very handsome woman with a Grecian cast of features. d. 290 Cambridge road, Hackney 25 Dec. 1892. The Era 11 Feb. 1893 p. 7.

PETTIGREW, Samuel Thomas (youngest son of succeeding). b. 1824 or 1825; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1848, M.A. 1851; C. of Norton-Mandeville, Essex 1848–9; fellow of St. Augustine’s college, Canterbury 1853–5, hon. fellow 1873 to death; chaplain Madras ecclesiastical establishment 1855–78; C. in charge of Pudleston, near Leominster 1878–80; V. of Hatfield, Herefordshire 1880 to death; author of Daily office for my schools 1867; Episodes in the life of an Indian chaplain 1882. d. Leominster 19 May 1889.

PETTIGREW, Thomas Joseph (son of Wm. Pettigrew, surgeon in the navy, d. 1825). b. Fleet st. London 28 Oct 1791; studied at the Borough hospitals; member of Medical society of London 1808, secretary 1810, registrar 1813; M.R.C.S. 1812, F.R.C.S. 1843; a founder of City philosophical society 1808, and of Philosophical society of London 1810; secretary of Royal humane society 1813–20; surgeon extraordinary to duke of Kent, then surgeon in ordinary, also surgeon to duchess of Kent; vaccinated the present queen, Victoria 1819; surgeon to duke of Sussex, compiled a catalogue of his library in Kensington palace in two vols. entitled Bibliotheca Sussexiana, 1827–39, the library was sold 1844–5; surgeon to Dispensary for treatment of diseases of children 1816–9; surgeon to Asylum for female orphans 1819; surgeon to Charing Cross hospital on its foundation 1832 to 1835; practised in Savile row 1835–54; Ph. Doc. Göttingen 7 Nov. 1826; F.R.S. 1 Feb. 1827; treasurer of British archæological association 1843; author of Views of the base of the brain and cranium 1809; Memoirs of John Coakley Lettsom, M.D. 3 vols. 1817; Observations on cholera 1831; A history of Egyptian mummies 1834; Medical portrait gallery, 4 vols. 1840; Memoirs of the life of lord Nelson, 2 vols. 1849. d. 16 Onslow crescent, South Kensington 23 Nov. 1865. T. J. Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery iv pp. 1–40 (1840) portrait 9; Journal of British archæol. assoc. (1866) 327–35; Physic and physicians ii 386 (1839).

PETTINGALL, Edward. Entered Bengal army 1804; lieut. 19 Bengal N.I. 1 Feb. 1807; captain 39 N.I. 21 Oct. 1821, major 25 July 1839, lieut. col. 18 March 1845 to 1846; commandant 5 irregular cavalry 1 Nov. 1832 to 18 March 1845; lieut. col. of 26 N.I. 1846–50, of 38 N.I. 1850–1, of 60 N.I. 1851–2, of 55 N.I. 1852–4, and of 12 N.I. 1854; col. of 12 N.I. 25 Feb. 1855 to death; M.G. 4 Nov. 1856. d. 134 Regent st. London 17 Nov. 1860.

PETTITT, George. Educ. Church missionary college, Islington; ordained deacon 1831 and priest 1832; missionary to Church missionary society in South India and Ceylon 1833–55; chaplain to general hospital at Birmingham 1855–6; V. of St. Jude’s, Birmingham 1856 to death; author of A history of the church missionary society’s mission in Tinnevally, South India 1850; Sermons on the creed, in the Tamil language. d. 1873.

PETTITT, Henry Alfred (son of Edwin Pettitt, civil engineer, author under name of Herbert Glyn of The cotton lord, 2 vols. 1862, 2 ed. 1864, and Uncle Crotty’s relations, 2 vols. 1863, 2 ed. 1866). b. Smethwick, near Birmingham 7 April 1848; appeared at Sadler’s Wells in The Rose of Blarney, a pantomime; clerk in office of Pickford & co. carriers London 1860–2; junior English master in North London collegiate school, High st. Camden Town about 1869, then secretary; wrote for Boy’s miscellany and other periodicals; treasurer, secretary, and author with J. H. Clynds, lessee of Gloucester theatre; wrote with Paul Merritt, British born, Grecian theatre 17 Oct. 1872; treasurer of Grecian theatre; his drama Golden fruit, produced at East London theatre 14 July 1873, for which he received £5; wrote with George Conquest for Grecian theatre Dead to the world 12 July 1875, Sentenced to death 14 Oct. 1875, Snatched from the grave 13 March 1876, Queen’s evidence 5 June 1876, Neck or nothing 3 Aug. 1876, Sole survivor 5 Oct. 1876, Schifter, the one-eyed pilot 2 April 1877, During her majesty’s pleasure 21 May 1877, and five other pieces; his pantomime Harlequin king Frolic, produced at Grecian theatre 24 Dec. 1880, played to April 1881 the longest run on record; wrote with Paul Merritt and Augustus Harris The World, Drury Lane 31 July 1880; visited America 1880–1; wrote a version of Le voyage en Suisse for the Hanlon-Lee troupe; his Taken from life produced at Adelphi 31 Dec. 1881; Love and money by Pettitt and Charles Reade produced there 18 Nov. 1882, In the ranks by Pettitt and G. R. Sims 6 Oct. 1883, and Harbour lights by the same 23 Oct. 1885; Human nature by Pettitt and A. Harris produced at Drury Lane 12 Sept. 1885, they also wrote A run of luck 28 Aug. 1886 (which brought in £25,000 in 12 weeks), and A million of money 6 Sept. 1890; wrote with Sydney Grundy for the Adelphi The bells of Haslemere 28 July 1887, and The Union Jack 19 July 1888; wrote with G. R. Sims The silver falls, Adelphi 22 Dec. 1888, and London, day by day, Adelphi 14 Sept. 1889, also Faust up to date, Gaiety 30 Oct. 1888, and Carmen up to date, Gaiety 4 Oct. 1890; wrote with sir A. Harris The prodigal daughter, Drury Lane 17 Sept. 1892, and A life of pleasure 21 Sept. 1893, transferred to Princess’s Dec. 1893; wrote A sailor’s knot Drury Lane 5 Sept. 1891; A woman’s revenge Adelphi 1 July 1893. d. of typhoid fever 352 Goldhawk road, Hammersmith 24 Dec. 1893. bur. Brompton cemetery 29 Dec., personalty declared at £48,477. The little journal i 103–9 (1884); Theatre xiii 15 (1889) portrait; W. Archer’s Theatrical world (1893) 187; Entr’acte annual (1893) 34 portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news 30 Dec. 1892 p. 562 portrait; The Era 30 Dec. 1893 p. 11.

Note.—At one time 22 companies were on tour in England and 6 in America playing his pieces. In Australia 6 of his plays were before the public and his name was on the bills of two London theatres. Six dramas in which he had collaborated were on in London the same evening.

PETTITT, Joseph Paul. b. Birmingham; landscape painter at Birmingham; member of Society of British artists, Suffolk st.; exhibited 6 pictures at R.A., 12 at B.I, and 97 at Suffolk st. gallery 1845–80; painted views of Swiss scenery for Joseph Gillott of Birmingham. d. Balsall Heath, near Birmingham 9 Sept. 1882. Architect xxvii 182 (1882).

PETTIT, Walter. b. London 14 March 1835; studied at royal academy of music; violoncellist in the orchestra of Her Majesty’s theatre 1851, remained there many years; succeeded Charles Lucas as principal violoncello in Philharmonic orchestra 1861; took place of Guillaume Paque in Her Majesty’s private band 1876. d. London 11 Dec. 1882. Grove’s Dictionary of music ii 696 (1880).

PEVERELL, Mary Ann (dau. of Mr. Callow). b. London 17 July 1792; m. in parish church of St. Mary, Whitechapel 17 April 1814 John Peverell; lived for many years at Winchmore Hill, near Edmonton. d. Winchmore Hill 6 Jany. 1896 aged 103. bur. Edmonton parish churchyard 10 Jany. Times 10 Jany. 1896 p. 4.

PEW, James. b. Leith, Scotland 1793; clerk in the stores department Tower of London 1807; auditor to the vestry of Camberwell 1827, overseer of the poor 1829, vicar’s warden 1839–63, hon. sec. of the cholera committee 1839; a governor of Dulwich college; member for Camberwell of Metropolitan board of works 1858–69; chairman of Camberwell vestry, his portrait was placed in Camberwell vestry hall April 1860. d. Asiago, in the Italian Tyrol Sept. 1876. bur. Padua. W. H. Blanch’s Parish of Camberwell (1877) 186–8 portrait.

PEW, John. Choirmaster to the Carl Rosa opera company 1873, brought the choir to a high state of efficiency, assistant conductor to the opera co.; conducted English opera in London and the provinces. d. Feb. 1890.

PEYTON, Sir Algernon William, 4 Baronet (1 son of sir Henry Peyton 1804–66). b. Woodstock 13 April 1833; educ. Eton 1847–50; cornet 1 life guards 19 Aug. 1851, captain 26 Feb. 1856, sold out 5 May 1869; master of the Bicester hounds 1861–3; succeeded 18 Feb. 1866; a driver of the Life guards’ coach; sheriff of Oxon. 1871. d. Swift’s house, Bicester, Oxon. 25 March 1872. Baily’s Mag. xvi 51 (1869) portrait.

PEYTON, Sir Henry, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir Henry Dashwood Peyton, d. 1789). b. Narborough hall, near Swaffham, Norfolk 1 July 1779; succeeded May 1789; M.P. Cambridgeshire 5 May to 26 June 1802; a member of the Four-in-hand club; always took part in the procession of mail coaches on 1 May, the last procession was in 1838; a member of the Bedford driving club, drove a yellow coach and grey horses; introduced the metal cap at the bottom of the whip stick and the thumb ferule at the top of the leather hand piece; the first amateur whip in England with the exception of another Cambridgeshire baronet. d. Swift’s house, near Bicester 24 Feb. 1854. bur. in the family vault at Doddington 3 March. G.M. xli 421 (1854); Baily’s Mag. Jany. 1869 p. 52; Driving by the Duke of Beaufort (Badminton library 1889) 189, 190, 236, 244, 274, 281, 282.

Note.—Thackeray in alluding to him and his driving in the park, calls him The ancient charioteer who must soon depart.

PEYTON, Sir Henry, 3 Baronet (son of sir H. Peyton, d. 1854). b. Grafton st. London 30 June 1804; educ. Harrow 1816; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 29 April 1822; cornet 1 life guards 1 Nov. 1824; lieut. on h.p. 15 Aug. 1826; capt. Oxfordshire yeomanry; an accomplished whip; member of Four-in-hand club; M.P. Woodstock 1837–8; succeeded 24 Feb. 1854. d. Swift’s house, Bicester 18 Feb. 1866. G.M. i 585 (1866).

PEYTON, Sir Thomas, 5 Baronet (2 son of rev. Algernon Peyton 1786–1868, a driver of coaches, rector of Doddington). b. 1817; educ. Eton 1832–5, and at Cambridge to 1838; drove coaches at Cambridge; ensign 14 Madras N.I. 26 June 1839, major 28 Oct. 1864 to 1 Oct. 1867; assistant quarter master general of Pegu division 6 Dec. 1864 to 1868, and of Hyderabad subsidiary force 1868–71; lieut. col. Madras staff corps 12 Dec. 1864; deputy Q.M.G. 29 Sept. 1871, retired as M.G. 3 Oct. 1872; succeeded his cousin sir Algernon Peyton 25 March 1872; a member of the Four-in-hand and Coaching clubs; a partner in the Windsor coach driving it five times a week; drove the Dorking coach two days a week. d. Swift’s house, Bicester 18 Feb. 1888. Baily’s Mag. xli 125–7 (1883) portrait; The Field 25 Feb. 1888 p. 275.

PFEIFFER, Emily Jane (dau. of R. Davis of Oxfordshire, an officer in the army). b. 26 Nov. 1827; travelled in Asia and America; m. 1853 Jurgen Edward Pfeiffer, merchant in city of London, who d. Jany. 1889; author of The holly branch, an album 1843; Valioneria 1857; Margaret or the motherless 1861; Gerard’s monument 1873, 2 ed. 1878; Poems 1876; Glan Alarch 1877; Quarterman’s grave 1879; Sonnets and songs 1880, 2 ed. 1886; Under the aspens 1882; The rhyme of the lady of the rock 1884; Flying leaves from east and west 1885; Woman and work 1888; Flowers of the night 1889; a writer in the Contemporary review and other periodicals; established an orphanage; designed the endowment of a school of dramatic art; left money to trustees for the promotion of women’s higher education, £2,000 from this fund was allotted towards erecting at Cardiff the Aberdare hall for women-students of the university of South Wales, opened 1895. d. Mayfield, West hill, Putney 23 Jany. 1890. A. H. Miles’s Poets and poetry of the century vii 555–72 (1891), where the birth and death are incorrect; Academy i 80–81 (1890).

PHAYRE, Sir Arthur Purves (son of Richard Phayre). b. Shrewsbury 7 May 1812; educ. Shrewsbury school; cadet Bengal army 13 Aug. 1828; ensign 7 Bengal N.I. 3 June 1829, major 10 Jany. 1855 to 1859; captain and comr. of Arakan 1849–52; comr. of Pegu in Lower Burma 1852–62; sent on a special mission to the king of Ava at Burma 1855; chief comr. of British Burma 1862–7; lieut. col. Bengal staff corps 22 Jany. 1859; governor of Mauritius 14 Nov. 1874 to Dec. 1878; C.B. 31 March 1863; G.C.M.C. 24 Jany. 1878; author of Coins of Arakan, of Pegu, and of Burma 1882; History of Burma 1883. d. Bray, near Dublin 14 Dec. 1885. bur. Enniskerry, memorial statue in Rangoon and portrait by sir Thomas Jones in coffee-room of East India united service club, St. James’ sq. London. Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. vii 103–12 (1886); H. Yule’s Narrative of the mission to the court of Ava, Calcutta (1856); A. Fytche’s Burma i 184, ii 220–3, 247 etc. (1878).

PHELAN, Michael. b. Kilkenny, Ireland 1816; an apprentice to a silversmith and jeweller in U.S. of America; became an accomplished billiard player; exhibited his playing in Ireland 1851; opened billiard rooms Broadway, New York 1852; went to San Francisco; returned to New York and became a billiard table manufacturer with Hugh W. Collender; also kept billiard rooms and took part in matches; author of The game of billiards 1850, 2 ed. New York 1857; The illustrated handbook of billiards, the American game 1863. d. New York city 21 Oct. 1871.

PHELAN, Patrick. b. near Kilkenny 1 Feb. 1795; educ. Montreal coll. Canada; a R.C. priest 26 Sept. 1825; a member of the Sulpicians 21 Nov. 1825 to 14 Sept. 1842; bishop of Carrha in partibus infidelium and co-adjutor to Dr. Gaulin, bishop of Kingston Feb. 1843, succeeded him as bishop 8 May 1857, was bishop of Kingston only 28 days, as he caught cold at Dr Gaulin’s funeral and d. Kingston 6 June 1857. Battersby’s Catholic Directory, Dublin (1858) 259.

PHELPS, Edmund (2 son of Samuel Phelps 1804–78). b. Albany st. Regent’s park 17 March 1838; acted in the provinces; acted Ulrick in Werner, Sadler’s Wells 21 Sept. 1860. Leonardo Gonzago in The Wife 10 Dec. 1860, Faulconbridge in King John 16 Feb. 1861; at the Princess’ the Prince in King Henry IV 23 May 1861; at Sadler’s Wells St. Lo in Lovell’s Love’s Sacrifice 5 Nov. 1863, Sir Gerard Fane in Marston’s Pure gold 9 Nov. 1863; at Drury Lane Pisanio in Cymbeline 17 Oct. 1864, Eugene in Falconer’s Love’s ordeal 3 April 1865; Faust in Bayle Bernard’s version 20 Oct. 1866, and hon. Tom Shuffleton in Colman’s John Bull 31 Jany. 1867; m. 30 March 1863 Sarah Eliza, only dau. of John Hudspeth, she first appeared at the Lyceum in 1859. d. Edinburgh 1 April 1870. bur. Dean cemet. Edinb. 5 April. C. E. Pascoe’s Dramatic list (1879) 257–8.

PHELPS, John. b. 1805; an apprentice to a waterman at Fulham 1819; won the second prize in the race for Doggett’s coat and badge 1 Aug. 1827; a well known sculler who won several contests; a waterman at Fulham; one of the four champion scullers 1846; judge of the University boat race many years, lost the judging after the dead heat of 1877; his son H. J. M. Phelps won Doggett’s coat and badge 1860. d. Fulham 6 Dec. 1890. bur. All Saints, Fulham 11 Dec. Illust. sp. and dr. news 4 April 1874 pp. 137, 138 portrait, and 20 Dec. 1890 p. 463 portrait.

PHELPS, Joseph (brother of Wm. Phelps, known as Brighton Bill, who was killed by Owen Swift in a fight at Melbourne Heath, Cambs. 13 March 1838). b. 1823; beat Joseph Barnash, £25 a side, 45 rounds in 59 minutes near Horley 7 Oct. 1845; beat Sam Martin, £50 a side, 68 rounds in 3 hours at Hope Point 22 Sept. 1846, beat him again, £100 a side, 49 rounds in 97 minutes, at Purfleet 26 May 1847; beaten by Alec Keene, £100 a side, 119 rounds in 165 minutes at Woking Common 9 Sept. 1847; a clipper of poodle dogs at 66 Ship st. Brighton about 1876–84. d. Dorset gardens, Brighton 15 Oct. 1889. Sporting Life 16 Oct. 1889 p. 7.

PHELPS, Robert (brother of Samuel Phelps 1804–78). b. 1808; scholar of Trin. coll. Camb.; B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836, B.D. 1843, D.D. 1843; fellow and Taylor lecturer of Sidney Sussex coll. 1833–43, master and bursar 1843 to death; vice-chancellor 1844 and 1847, refused any information to the university commissioners 1872; R. of Willingham, near Newmarket March 1848 to death; author of An elementary treatise on optics, to elucidate the construction of telescopes 1835. d. the Master’s lodge, Sidney Sussex college 11 Jany. 1890. The Times 13 Jany. 1890 p. 7.

PHELPS, Samuel (2 son of Robert M. Phelps, outfitter, d. 1820). b. 1 St. Aubyn st. Plymouth Dock, now Devonport 13 Feb. 1804; educ. under Dr. Samuel Reece at Saltash; junior reader to the press in office of the Plymouth Herald for 3 months in 1820; reader to the Globe and Sun newspapers in London 1820; played as an amateur at the Rawston st. theatre and the Olympic 1825; acted on the York circuit at 18s. a week 1826; played in England, Ireland, and Scotland 1826–37; appeared at Haymarket, London 28 Aug. 1837 as Shylock; played at Covent Garden 1837–9; acted Othello and Iago at Haymarket Aug. 1839 to Jany. 1840; played at Drury Lane Jany. to March 1840 and 1841–3, the original Captain Channel in Jerrold’s Prisoners of war 8 Feb. 1842, Lord Lynterne in Marston’s Patrician’s daughter 10 Dec 1842, Lord Tresham in Browning’s Blot on the scutcheon 11 Feb. 1843, Lord Byerdale in Knowles’s Secretary 24 April 1843, and Dunstan in Smith’s Athelwold 18 May 1843; the first Almagro in Knowles’s The Rose of Arragon at Haymarket 4 June 1842; lessee with Mrs. Warner and Thomas Greenwood of Sadler’s Wells theatre 27 May 1844, Mrs. Warner retired from management in 1847, Greenwood in 1860, and Phelps 15 March 1862, produced all the plays of Shakespeare except Richard II, the three parts of Henry the Sixth, Titus Andronicus and Troilus and Cressida 1844–62; the original Henri IV in Sullivan’s King’s friend 21 May 1845, Walter Cochrane in White’s Feudal times 18 Feb. 1847, John Savile in White’s John Savile of Haysted 3 Nov. 1847, Calagnos in G. H. Boker’s tragedy Calagnos 10 May 1849; played Antony in Antony and Cleopatra, the first time of performance for a century 22 Oct. 1849; the original Garcia in Tomlins’s Garcia or the noble error 12 Dec. 1849, Blackbourne in George Bennett’s Retribution 11 Feb. 1850, James VI in White’s James VI 6 March 1852; revived Pericles, not acted since the Restoration, 14 Oct. 1854; the original Bertuccio in Tom Taylor’s Fool’s Revenge 18 Oct. 1859, and Louis XI in Delavigne’s Louis XI 21 Sept. 1861; played in Berlin and Hamburg May 1859; at Princess’s theatre 1860; acted Richelieu at Windsor castle 24 Jany. 1861; played at Drury Lane 1863–8 acting Manfred 14 Oct. 1863, Mephistopheles in Faust 20 Oct. 1866, the Doge in Byron’s Marino Faliero 2 Nov. 1867, and James I and Trapbois in Halliday’s King o’ Scots 26 Sept. 1868; acted at Astley’s amphitheatre March 1870; first appeared at Gaiety Dec. 1873 as Dr. Cantwell in the Hypocrite; acted Falstaff there Dec. 1874; acted at Aquarium theatre from 1877, making his last appearance as Wolsey in Henry VIII 1 March 1878; author of The Plays of William Shakespeare under the supervision of S. Phelps with illustrations by Nicholson, 2 vols. 1851–4, another ed. 2 vols. 1858, originally came out in parts; resided at 420 Camden road, Holloway, London to 1878. d. Anson’s farm, Coopersale, near Epping, Essex 6 Nov. 1878. bur. Highgate cemet. 13 Nov., portrait as Cardinal Wolsey at Garrick club. Phelps and Robertson’s Life of S. Phelps (1886) three portraits; J. Coleman’s Memoirs of S. Phelps (1886); M. Williams’ Some London theatres (1883) 17–29; The theatre i 325–29, 338–44 (1878); Saturday Programme 27 Nov. 1875 pp. 8–10 portrait; W. Marston’s Our recent actors ii 1–49 (1888); J. Coleman’s Players i 117–208 (1888); G.M. Sept. 1872 pp. 308–10; Drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages, 2nd series (1859) portrait; Theatrical times i 81 (1847) portrait; Tallis’ Drawing room table book, part 7 portrait; Pascoe’s Dramatic list (1879) 258–65.

PHELPS, William (son of rev. John Phelps of Flax Bourton, Somerset). b. 1776; matric. from Balliol coll. Oxf. 18 Nov. 1793, migrated to St. Alban hall, B.A. 1797; V. of Bicknoller, Somerset 1811–51; V. of Meare, Somerset 1824–51; R. of Oxcombe, Lincs. 1851 to death; author of Calendarium botanicum, or a botanical calendar of all the British plants 1810; The history and antiquities of Somersetshire, 2 vols. 1836–9; Observations on the great marshes and turbaries of Somerset 1836; A mirror of the duchy of Nassau, or a guide to the Brunnens 1842; An historical guide to Frankfort-on-Maine 1844. d. Oxcombe 17 Aug. 1856.

PHELPS, William Robert (eld. son of Samuel Phelps 1804–78, actor). b. 1828; barrister I.T. 6 June 1857; parliamentary reporter for The Times; connected with a Manchester paper; chief justice of supreme court of island of St. Helena 1 June 1863 to death. d. St. Helena 16 Nov. 1869, monument in Highgate cemetery.

PHELPS, William Whitmarsh (eld. child of John Phelps of Wilton, near Salisbury, master of the free school, d. 21 Nov. 1823 aged 57). b. Wilton 1 Oct. 1797; educ. Hyde abbey sch. Winchester 1810; scholar of C.C. coll. Oxf. 20 Oct. 1815 to 1822; B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; fellow of his college 10 Oct. 1822 to 1824; C. of Hindon, Wilts. 1822–6; assistant master Harrow April 1826 to 30 July 1839; C. of St. Lawrence, Reading 1 March 1840; C. of Sonning 1 July 1841; C. of Sulhampstead 22 May 1842; Incumbent of Trinity church, Reading 1845–64; examining chaplain to bishop of Carlisle 10 Aug. 1860; archdeacon of Carlisle 1863 to death, collated 26 Feb. 1863; V. of Appleby 18 Jany. 1865 to death; author of Sermons and studies in scripture subjects 1876. d. Appleby vicarage 22 June 1867. bur. in Appleby churchyard 27 June. The life of W. W. Phelps by rev. Charles Hale, 2 vols. (1871–73) 2 portraits.

PHILIP, John (son of a schoolmaster). b. Kirkcaldy, Fife 14 April 1775; studied at Hoxton theological college three years; minister of the First Scottish congregational chapel in Great George st. Aberdeen 1804–18; conducted an inquiry into the state of the South African missions of the London missionary society 1819–22; superintendent of the society’s South African stations 1822; pastor of the new Union chapel at Cape Town, opened Dec. 1822; tried for libelling Wm. Mackay, landrost of Somerset, verdict for Mackay 16 July 1830; left for England 28 Feb. 1836, made several lecturing tours in Great Britain to rouse public opinion against the Cape government; unofficial adviser to governor sir G. T. Napier at Cape Town in all questions relating to the treatment of the natives Feb. 1838 to 1843; undertook tours in 1839 and 1842 to promote the establishment of a belt of native states to the north and east of the colony; known as The Wilberforce of the Hottentots; the most prominent politician in Cape Colony for 30 years; author of Memoir of Mrs. Matilda Smith 1824; Researches in South Africa, the religious condition of the native tribes, 2 vols. 1828. d. Hankey, Cape of Good Hope 27 Aug. 1851. Robert Philip’s The Elijah of South Africa, or the character of the late John Philip (1851); Ralph Wardlaw’s What is death, a sermon (1852); G. M. Theal’s History of South Africa iii 477 (1891), iv 605 (1893).

PHILIP, John Birnie (son of Wm. Philip). b. London 23 Nov. 1824; pupil of John Rogers Herbert, R.A.; exhibited 22 sculptures at R.A. 1858–75; executed the reredos of Ely cathedral 1857, the reredos of St. George’s chapel, Windsor 1863, eight statues of kings and queens for the royal gallery in houses of parliament, and the statues on the front of the Royal academy, Burlington house; executed the friezes on the podium on the north and west sides of the Albert memoria, representing 87 sculptors and architects 1864–72, he also modelled for the canopy of the memorial four bronze statues of geometry, geology, physiology, and philosophy, and the eight angels clustered at the base of the cross on the summit; executed the capitals of the columns on Blackfriars bridge 1869, and the statue of colonel Edward Akroyd, M.P., erected at Halifax; m. 1854 Frances Black, she was granted civil list pension of £100, 19 June 1875; he d. Merton villa, 280a King’s road, Chelsea 2 March 1875. bur. Brompton cemet. J. Dafforne’s Albert memorial (1877) 40–1, 63–6, 69–70, three plates; I.L.N. lxvi 257, 258 (1875) portrait; Graphic xi 296 (1875) portrait.

PHILIP, Michel Maxwell (eld. son of Michel Maxwell Philip of South Napanina, Trinidad). b. Cooper Grange estate, South Napanina 12 Oct. 1829; educ. St. Mary’s catholic college, Blairs, Scotland; barrister M.T. 10 Nov. 1854; acting inspector of schools, Trinidad 1856 and 1865; solicitor general, Trinidad March 1871 to death, acting attorney general 1873–4; author of Emmanuel Appadocca, a tale of the boucaneers. 2 vols. 1854. d. Loyola, Maraval, Trinidad 29 June 1888.

PHILIP, Robert. b. Huntly, Aberdeenshire 1791; educ. Hoxton academy 1811–5; Independent minister at Liverpool 1815; minister of Maberley chapel, Ball’s end road, London 1 Jany. 1826, resigned 1855; advocated the claims of London missionary society; D.D. Dartmouth college, U.S. of America 1852; author of Christian experience, or a guide to the perplexed 1828, 10 ed. 1847; The life and times of the rev. George Whitfield 1837; The life, times, and characteristics of John Bunyan 1839; with G. Offor The works of John Bunyan 1853, 2 ed. 1862; his name is attached to upwards of 35 publications. d. 15 Gwlden terrace, Richmond road, Dalston, London 1 May 1858. J. M. Clintock and J. Strong’s Cyclopædia of biblical literature viii 91 (1879); Congregational year book (1859) 213–4.

PHILIPPART, John. b. London about 1784; private secretary to 1 baron Sheffield, president of the board of agriculture 1809–11; a clerk in the war office 1811; knight of St. John of Jerusalem 11 Nov. 1830, chevalier of justice 1831, bailiff ad honores 6 July 1847, chancellor of the order 1831 to death; knight of the Swedish orders of Gustavus Vasa and of the Polar star of Sweden 1832; helped to found the Fulham and Hammersmith general dispensary, now the West London hospital, 1856, honorary treasurer 1856–61; M.R.I.A.; owned and edited a journal called The military panorama, 4 vols. Oct. 1812 to Sept. 1814; author of Northern campaigns from 1812 to June 4, 1813, 2 vols. 1813; Memoirs of the prince royal of Sweden 1813; Memoirs of general Moreau 1814; The royal military calendar containing the services of every general officer in the British army, 3 vols. 1815–6, 3 ed. 5 vols. 1820; The East India military calendar 1823; General index to the first and second series of Hansard’s parliamentary debates 1834; Memoirs of prince Edward, duke of Kent and Strathearn 1819. d. College house, Church lane, Hammersmith 8 May 1875, will dated 3 May 1873, proved under £10,000, 19 July 1875, all left to his daughter Mrs. Bennett. I.L.N. 31 July 1875 p. 119.

PHILLIPPE, Monsieur, stage name of Phillippe Talon. b. Alais, near Nismes; a confectioner; in business in London, then in Aberdeen, disposed of his confectionery in a lottery at the Aberdeen theatre; travelled through England and Scotland as a conjuror under the name of Monsieur Phillippe; erected a temporary theatre in Glasgow 1840; while performing in Dublin learnt the gold fish trick and the ring puzzle from a Chinese juggler; played in Paris 1841 and in Vienna; at the St James’ theatre, London 1845, and at Strand theatre with his Soirées mysterieuses Oct. 1845; two of his most curious tricks were The hat of Fortunatus and The kitchen of Parafaragaramus; he always appeared in a fancy dress. T. Frost’s Lives of the conjurors (1876) 271–6; I.L.N. 4 Oct. 1845 p. 221 portrait; F. Volant’s Alexis Soyer (1859) 57–9.

PHILIPPS, Henry (3 son of Wm. Hollingworth Philipps, captain Notts. militia 1757–1839). b. 19 Dec. 1796; educ. Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1825; ordained 1842; author of Remarks on a bill respecting an alteration in the constitution of deans and chapters 1840; Litany and prayers for family worship 1856; composer of The Psalm of Life, words by Longfellow; Late, late, so late, song, words by Tennyson 1882; resided at 10 Pitville lawn, Cheltenham many years. d. The Mansion, Bisley 13 Dec. 1892.

PHILIPPS, Richard Nathaniel (eld. son of Nathaniel Philipps of Moor Lodge, near Sheffield, unitarian minister). b. 1807; educ. Sheffield and Christ’s coll. Camb., captain of the college boat; LL.B. 1849, LL.D. 1872; barrister I.T. 11 June 1841, went northern circuit; presented with a testimonial at Stafford 17 Jany. 1853; president of Thames subscription club 1859; special pleader at central criminal court; recorder of Pontefract Aug. 1871 to death; chairman of committee of court of common council of city of London to 1865, and chairman of library committee Feb. 1872 to 1873; F.S.A. 1 March 1855; chairman of quarter sessions for west riding of Yorkshire. d. Broom hall, Sheffield 5 Sept. 1877. I.L.N. xxii 93 (1853) view of testimonial, xxxiv 475 (1859) view of testimonial, xlvii 148 (1865) view of testimonial, lxii 494 (1873) view of loving cup presented to him.

PHILIPS, Sir George Richard, 2 Baronet (only son of sir George Philips 1766–1847). b. 23 Dec. 1789, educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1812. M.A. 1816; M.P. Steyning 1820–32; M.P. Kidderminster 1835–7; M.P. Poole 1837–52; sheriff of Warws. 1859. d. Weston house, Shipton-on-Stour 22 Feb. 1883.

PHILIPS, John Alexander. b. 1790; a midshipman at battle of Trafalgar; 2 lieut. R.M. 26 Aug. 1806; lieut. col. R.M.A. 4 Sept. 1851, adjutant 1828–34; colonel of Woolwich division 28 March 1863 to death; L.G. 29 May 1863. d. York Tower, near Sandhurst 27 Nov. 1865.

PHILIPS, Mark (eld. son of Robert Philips of The Park, Prestwich, Manchester 1760–1844). b. The Park, near Manchester 4 Nov. 1800; educ. Manchester college York, and Glasgow universities; chairman of the New Quay company, Manchester 1825; M.P. Manchester 1832–47; sheriff of Warws. 1851. d. Welcombe, Snitherfield, near Stratford-on-Avon 23 Dec. 1873. W. E. A. Axon’s Annals of Manchester (1886) 339; I.L.N. lxiv 23 (1874).

PHILIPS, Nathaniel George. Ensign 47 foot 19 May 1846, captain 24 Nov. 1854, sold out 6 Nov. 1857; served in the Crimea, wounded at Alma, medal with clasp; raised in St. George’s lodge, Liverpool 1855; W.M. of lodge 311 Irish constitution at Templemore, Tipperary; prince mason of Ireland; received 33 degree in English masonry in London 1864, grand treasurer 1868, secretary, lieut. grand commander, and sovereign grand commander at No. 33 Golden sq. London, assisted greatly in the formation of the library; member of corps of gentlemen at arms 9 July 1858, sub-officer 6 Feb. 1863 to Feb. 1874; groom of the privy chamber Feb. 1874 to 1886. d. 1886. J. G’s Masonic portraits (1876) 122–7.

PHILIPS, Robert Needham (brother of Mark Philips 1800–73). b. Manchester 20 June 1815; educ. Rugby 1829 etc. and at Manchester college; merchant and manufacturer Manchester; M.P. Bury 1857–9, 1865–85, when he was presented with a testimonial; sheriff of Lancashire 1856. d. Welcombe house, Stratford-on-Avon 28 Feb. 1890. I.L.N. xxxi 389 (1857) portrait, 22 March 1890 p. 366 portrait.

PHILLIMORE, Greville (5 son of Joseph Phillimore 1775–1855). b. London 5 Feb. 1821; educ. Westminster 1831, Charterhouse 1832–8, and Ch. Ch. Oxf, canoneer student 1838, B.A. 1842, M.A. 1844; C. of Henley-on-Thames 1846–7, 1850–1; C. of Shiplake 1847; C. of Wargrave and Fawley 1848–9; V. of Downe-Ampney near Cricklade 1851–67; R. of Henley 1867–83; R. of Ewelme, Oxfordshire July 1883 to death; joint editor with H. W. Beadon and J. R. Woodford of The parish hymn book 1863, 2 ed. 1875, to which he contributed 11 original hymns; author of Parochial sermons 1856, 2 ed. 1885; Uncle Z [a story of Triberg in the Black forest] 1881; Only a black box, or a passage in the life of a curate 1883; preached at Ewelme on Sunday and d. the same night 20 Jany. 1884. bur. Shiplake churchyard 25 Jany. Julian’s Dictionary of hymnology (1892) 893; C. M. Phillimore’s In memoriam of G. Phillimore (1884) memoir pp. iii–vi.

PHILLIMORE, Henry Bourchier (younger son of captain sir John Phillimore, R.N. 1781–1840). b. 25 Oct. 1833; entered R.N. 5 May 1846; captain 14 July 1864; commanded the Curacao 23 guns in Australia 1863; transferred to the steamer Avon in which he twice attacked the Maori position at Rangariri 1863, New Zealand medal; C.B. 13 March 1867; R.A. 8 April 1880, V.A. 24 May 1887, retired 25 Oct. 1888, retired admiral 5 April 1892; alderman of Huntingdonshire county council 1889 to death. d. Stoneleigh, Lansdown road, Bath 3 July 1893. Times 8 July 1893 p. 10.

PHILLIMORE, John George (brother of Greville Phillimore 1821–84). b. 62 Gower st. London 5 Jany. 1808; educ. Westminster 1817–1824, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; clerk in the board of control for India 1827–32; barrister L.I. 23 Nov. 1832, bencher Nov. 1851 to death; revising barrister 1837; reader on civil law and jurisprudence at Middle Temple Jany. 1851; Q.C. July 1851; reader in constitutional law and history to the Inns of Court June 1852; M.P. Leominster 1852–7; author of Letter to the lord chancellor on the reform of the law 1846; Thoughts on law reform 1847; Introduction to the study and history of the Roman law 1848; The history and principles of the law of evidence 1850; An inaugural lecture on jurisprudence and a lecture on canon law 1851; Principles and maxims of jurisprudence 1856; Private law among the Romans 1863; History of England during the reign of George the third, 1 vol. 1863, no more published. d. Shiplake house, near Reading 27 April 1865. Law Times xl 327 (1865).

PHILLIMORE, Joseph (eld. son of Joseph Phillimore 1750–1831, vicar of Orton-on-the-Hill, Leics.). b. 14 Sept. 1775; educ. Westminster 1789–93, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1797, B.C.L. 1800, D.C.L. 1804; member of College of advocates 21 Nov. 1804; regius professor of civil law at Oxford 31 Oct. 1809 to death; chancellor of diocese of Oxford 1809 to death; judge of court of admiralty of the Cinque ports 1809 to death; president of consistory courts of Oxford, Worcester, and Bristol about 1816; M.P. St. Mawes, Cornwall 1817–26; M.P. Yarmouth, Isle of Wight 1826–30; one of the original members of a short-lived third party formed in 1818; member of board of control for India 8 Feb. 1822 to Jany. 1828; principal comr. for final adjudication of French claims under treaties of 1815 and 1818, 23 Jany. 1833; presided over registration commission appointed 13 Sept. 1836 and drafted the report; king’s advocate in the court of admiralty 25 Oct. 1834, queen’s advocate 1837 to death; chancellor of diocese of Worcester 1834 to death; commissary of deanery of St. Paul’s 1834 to death; chancellor of diocese of Bristol 1842 to death; judge of consistory court of Gloucester 1846; hon. LL.D. Camb. 1834; F.R.S. 13 Feb. 1840; edited Reports of cases argued in the ecclesiastical courts at Doctors’ commons and in the high court of delegates, 3 vols. 1818–27; Reports of cases argued in the arches and prerogative court of Canterbury 2 vols. 1832–3. d. Shiplake house, near Reading 24 Jany. 1855. Law Review xxii 69–71 (1855).

PHILLIMORE, Sir Robert Joseph, 1 Baronet (brother of John George Phillimore 1808–65). b. Whitehall, London 5 Nov. 1810; educ. Westminster 1824–8, king’s scholar 1824; student of Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1828, B.A. 1832, M.A. 1834, B.C.L. 1835, D.C.L. 1838; great friend of W. E. Gladstone, proposed him as candidate for representation of Oxford 1847; clerk in the office of board of control 1832–5; advocate at Doctors’ commons 2 Nov. 1839, steward 1847–50, librarian 1850–1 and 1853–4, treasurer 1851–3; barrister M.T. 7 May 1841, bencher 1 Feb. 1858 to death, treasurer 1870; commissary of the deans and chapters of St. Paul’s and Westminster to 1867; official of the archdeaconries of Middlesex and London 1840–62; chancellor of the dioceses of Chichester 1844–67, of Salisbury 1845–67, and of Oxford 1855–67; judge of the Cinque ports Feb. 1855 to 1875; admiralty advocate Feb. 1855; Q.C. Jany. 1858; queen’s advocate general 28 Aug. 1862 to 1867; knighted by patent 17 Sept. 1862; contested Tavistock 2 Aug. 1847, 28 April 1852 and 8 July 1852, and Coventry 27 March 1857; M.P. Tavistock 1853–7; dean of court of arches 1 Aug. 1867 to 20 Oct. 1875; judge of high court of admiralty 23 Aug. 1867, resigned 21 March 1883; P.C. 3 Aug. 1867; temporary judge-advocate-general 17 May 1871 to Aug. 1872; master of the faculties 6 Feb. 1873 to 1875; Swiney prizeman of society of arts Jany. 1874; created baronet 21 Dec. 1881; president of Association for reform and codification of law of nations 1879; member of royal commissions on neutrality 1868, on naturalisation 1868, on ritual 1867, the building of courts of justice 1859, and on the judicature and ecclesiastical courts 1867; edited Memoirs and correspondence of George, lord Littleton, 2 vols. 1845; author of The law of domicil 1847; Commentaries upon international law, 4 vols. 1854–61, 3 ed. 1878–89; Judgment delivered by sir R. Phillimore in the cases of Martin v. Mackonochie and Flamank v. Simpson 1868; The ecclesiastical law of the church of England, 2 vols. 1873, 2 ed. 1895. d. The Coppice, near Henley-on-Thames 4 Feb. 1885. bur. Shiplake churchyard. E. Manson’s Builders of our law (1895) 163–8 portrait; A generation of judges (1886) 204–10; F. H. Forshall’s Westminster school (1884) 527–9; I.L.N. lxxxvi 178 (1885) portrait.

PHILLIMORE, William (brother of Joseph Phillimore 1775–1855). b. 6 Feb. 1777; educ. Westminster; barrister L.I. 19 Nov. 1799; equity draftsman; a comr. of lunatics 1815 to 1842, a visitor of lunatics 1842 to death; chairman of the St. Alban’s quarter sessions. d. Deacon’s Hill, Herts. 28 Nov. 1860.

PHILLIP, John (son of a soldier). b. 13 Skene sq. Aberdeen 19 April 1817; apprenticed to Spark, a painter and glazier in Wallace Nook, Aberdeen 1832–6; studied painting in London 1836–40; subject and portrait painter; exhibited 55 pictures at R.A., 12 at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st. gallery 1836–67: A.R.A. Nov. 1857, R.A. Nov. 1859; painted for the queen The marriage of the princess royal with the crown prince of Germany 1858; studied and painted in Spain 1851–2, 1856–7, 1860; 200 of his pictures were in the London international exhibition of 1873. d. 1 South villas, Campden Hill, Kensington 27 Feb. 1867. W. C. Monkhouse’s Masterpieces of English art (1869) 164–8; Sandby’s History of royal academy ii 306–8 (1862); I.L.N. xxxv 543, 560 (1859) portrait, l 285 (1867) portrait; T. O. Barlow’s Catalogue of the works of J. Phillip 1873; J. Dafforne’s Pictures of J. Phillip 1877; Leisure Hour xvi 629 portrait; Illust. Times 9 March 1867 p. 149 portrait.

PHILLIPI, Monsieur, stage name of Harry Graham. A clown in Ginnett’s circus; came out at Ramsgate under management of Charles W. Montague as M. Phillipi the wizard about March 1859; performed at the chief towns on the south coast; appeared with success at the Cabinet theatre, King’s Cross, where he also played Richard the Third. d. a few days afterwards. bur. in Tower Hamlets cemetery about 1860. C. W. Montague’s Recollections of an equestrian manager (1881) 8–11.

PHILLIPPS, Adelaide. b. Stratford-on-Avon 26 Oct. 1833; taken to U.S. of America 1841; appeared on the stage at Tremont theatre, Boston Jany. 1842; sang at the Boston museum 1843–51; pupil of Manuel Garcia in London March 1852; made her début at Brescia as Arsace in Semiramide 1853; sang in Milan and other cities; sang in Italian opera in Philadelphia and New York; appeared in Paris as Azucena in Il Trovatore 1860; the Adelaide Phillipps opera company was organized 1876: sang with the Ideal opera company 1879–81; last appeared on the stage in Cincinnati 1881; her stage name in Europe was signorina Fillippi; her voice was a contralto with a compass of 2½ octaves; her best parts were Rosina, Leonora and Azucena. d. suddenly Carlsbad, Austria 3 Oct. 1882. A. C. Waterston’s Adelaide Phillipps, a record, Boston (1883); Appleton’s American biography iv 758 (1888) portrait.

PHILLIPPS, Charles March (eld. son of Thomas March of More Critchill, Dorset, who took additional name of Phillipps in 1796, d. March 1817). b. 28 May 1779; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1802, M.A. 1805; M.P. Leicestershire 1818–20 and 1831–2; M.P. North Leicestershire 1832–7; sheriff of Leics. 1825. d. Cheltenham 24 April 1862. G.M. June 1862 p. 788.

PHILLIPPS, Edward Thomas March (brother of preceding). b. 1784; educ. Charterhouse and Sidney Sussex coll. Camb., 6 wrangler 1804, B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; R. of Hathern, Leics. 29 Sept. 1808 to death; minister of Dishley with Thorp Acre 1816–43; chancellor of diocese of Gloucester 1820 to death; author of Four sermons on the inward life of the believer 1853; The ordnances of spiritual worship 1863. d. Hathern rectory 12 July 1859. Records of ministry of E. T. M. Phillipps (1862); G.M. vii 189 (1859).

PHILLIPPS, Samuel March (brother of preceding). b. Uttoxeter 14 July 1780; educ. Charterhouse and Sidney Sussex coll. Camb., eighth wrangler and chancellor’s medallist 1802, B.A. 1802, M.A. 1805; barrister I.T. 19 June 1806; an exchequer bill loan comr.; permanent under secretary for home affairs 16 July 1827 to May 1848; P.C. 27 June 1848; author of A treatise on the law of evidence 1814, 10 ed. 3 vols. 1868; edited State trials, or a collection of the most interesting trials prior to the revolution of 1688, 2 vols. 1826. d. Great Malvern 11 March 1862.

PHILLIPPS, Sir Thomas, 1 baronet (son of Thomas Phillipps 1742–1818, of Middle hill, Broadway, Worcestershire). b. 32 Cannon st. Manchester 2 July 1792; educ. Rugby 1807 etc. and Univ. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1820; collected rare manuscripts especially those on vellum, resided in Belgium, Holland, France, Germany and Switzerland 1820–5; bought three quarters of the Meerman collection of manuscripts at The Hague 1824, the collection of professor Van Ess of Darmstadt 1824, and many of the Muschenbrock collection of Dutch charters, &c. 1827; bought more than 16,000 manuscripts from Thorpe the bookseller 1836: purchased the earl of Guilford’s collection of Italian manuscripts in upwards of 1,300 volumes; purchased more than 400 lots at the Heber sale 1836; bought about 60,000 manuscripts altogether; bought a series of incunabula in about a thousand volumes 1824; collected 100,000 volumes of printed books, also coins and pictures; established about 1822 a private printing press in a tower known as Broadway tower, on the Middle Hill estate, removed his printing press and library to Thirlestane house, Cheltenham 1862; F.R.S. 29 June 1819; F.S.A. 1 April 1819; F.G.S. 1830; created baronet 27 July 1821; sheriff of Worcs. 1825; contested Grimsby 9 Feb 1826; privately printed at Salisbury in 1819 Collections for Wiltshire, and at Evesham in 1820 Account of the family of sir Thomas Molyneux; Institutiones clericorum in comitatu Wiltoniæ 1297–1810, 2 vols. 1822–5: Monumental inscriptions in the county of Wilton 1822. d. Thirlestane house, Cheltenham 6 Feb 1872. bur. the old church, Broadway, Worcs., portrait by Thomas Phillips, R.A. at Thirlestane house. Lowndes’s Bibliographer’s manual iii 1856–8 (1864), and Appendix pp. 225–37; Book Lore iv 141–3 (1886); Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. v 310–11 (1870–73); Trubner’s Record vii 112 (1872); I.L.N. lx 163 (1872), lxi 22 (1872).

Note.—First portion of library, 8,346 lots producing £2,200. 15, was sold by Sotheby 3–10 Aug. 1886.

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.

Note.—He left £1,000 to Balliol coll. Oxf. and £1,000 to Jesus coll. to found scholarships for the pupils of the Institution at Llandovery.

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).

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