Modern English biography

366 _portrait_. PHILLIMORE, GREVILLE (5 son of Joseph Phillimore 1775–1855). _b._ London 5 Feb. 1821; educ. Westminster 1831, Charterhouse 1832–8, and Ch. Ch. Oxf, canoneer student 1838, B.A. 1842, M.A. 1844; C. of Henley-on-Thames 1846–7, 1850–1; C. of Shiplake 1847; C. of Wargrave and Fawley 1848–9; V. of Downe-Ampney near Cricklade 1851–67; R. of Henley 1867–83; R. of Ewelme, Oxfordshire July 1883 to death; joint editor with H. W. Beadon and J. R. Woodford of The parish hymn book 1863, 2 ed. 1875, to which he contributed 11 original hymns; author of Parochial sermons 1856, 2 ed. 1885; Uncle Z [a story of Triberg in the Black forest] 1881; Only a black box, or a passage in the life of a curate 1883; preached at Ewelme on Sunday and _d._ the same night 20 Jany. 1884. _bur._ Shiplake churchyard 25 Jany. _Julian’s Dictionary of hymnology_ (1892) 893; _C. M. Phillimore’s In memoriam of G. Phillimore_ (1884) _memoir pp. iii–vi_. PHILLIMORE, HENRY BOURCHIER (younger son of captain sir John Phillimore, R.N. 1781–1840). _b._ 25 Oct. 1833; entered R.N. 5 May 1846; captain 14 July 1864; commanded the Curacao 23 guns in Australia 1863; transferred to the steamer Avon in which he twice attacked the Maori position at Rangariri 1863, New Zealand medal; C.B. 13 March 1867; R.A. 8 April 1880, V.A. 24 May 1887, retired 25 Oct. 1888, retired admiral 5 April 1892; alderman of Huntingdonshire county council 1889 to death. _d._ Stoneleigh, Lansdown road, Bath 3 July 1893. _Times 8 July 1893 p._ 10. PHILLIMORE, JOHN GEORGE (brother of Greville Phillimore 1821–84). _b._ 62 Gower st. London 5 Jany. 1808; educ. Westminster 1817–1824, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; clerk in the board of control for India 1827–32; barrister L.I. 23 Nov. 1832, bencher Nov. 1851 to death; revising barrister 1837; reader on civil law and jurisprudence at Middle Temple Jany. 1851; Q.C. July 1851; reader in constitutional law and history to the Inns of Court June 1852; M.P. Leominster 1852–7; author of Letter to the lord chancellor on the reform of the law 1846; Thoughts on law reform 1847; Introduction to the study and history of the Roman law 1848; The history and principles of the law of evidence 1850; An inaugural lecture on jurisprudence and a lecture on canon law 1851; Principles and maxims of jurisprudence 1856; Private law among the Romans 1863; History of England during the reign of George the third, 1 vol. 1863, no more published. _d._ Shiplake house, near Reading 27 April 1865. _Law Times xl_ 327 (1865). PHILLIMORE, JOSEPH (eld. son of Joseph Phillimore 1750–1831, vicar of Orton-on-the-Hill, Leics.). _b._ 14 Sept. 1775; educ. Westminster 1789–93, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1797, B.C.L. 1800, D.C.L. 1804; member of College of advocates 21 Nov. 1804; regius professor of civil law at Oxford 31 Oct. 1809 to death; chancellor of diocese of Oxford 1809 to death; judge of court of admiralty of the Cinque ports 1809 to death; president of consistory courts of Oxford, Worcester, and Bristol about 1816; M.P. St. Mawes, Cornwall 1817–26; M.P. Yarmouth, Isle of Wight 1826–30; one of the original members of a short-lived third party formed in 1818; member of board of control for India 8 Feb. 1822 to Jany. 1828; principal comr. for final adjudication of French claims under treaties of 1815 and 1818, 23 Jany. 1833; presided over registration commission appointed 13 Sept. 1836 and drafted the report; king’s advocate in the court of admiralty 25 Oct. 1834, queen’s advocate 1837 to death; chancellor of diocese of Worcester 1834 to death; commissary of deanery of St. Paul’s 1834 to death; chancellor of diocese of Bristol 1842 to death; judge of consistory court of Gloucester 1846; hon. LL.D. Camb. 1834; F.R.S. 13 Feb. 1840; edited Reports of cases argued in the ecclesiastical courts at Doctors’ commons and in the high court of delegates, 3 vols. 1818–27; Reports of cases argued in the arches and prerogative court of Canterbury 2 vols. 1832–3. _d._ Shiplake house, near Reading 24 Jany. 1855. _Law Review xxii_ 69–71 (1855). 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.