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.