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.