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).