Modern English biography

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. 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