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_.