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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