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.