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Phillimore
Phillimore is the surname of: People: *Augustus Phillimore (1822–1897), Royal Navy admiral *Claud Phillimore, 4th Baron Phillimore (1911–1994), English architect *Egerton Phillimore (1856–1937), British scholar of Welsh literature and language *Greville Phillimore (1821–1884), British Anglican priest and hymnal compiler *Henry Phillimore (1910–1974), English barrister and judge *John Phillimore (1781–1840), Royal Navy captain *John George Phillimore (1808–1865), English barrister, jurist and politician *John Swinnerton Phillimore (1873–1926), British classical scholar, translator, and poet *Joseph Phillimore (1775–1855), English civil lawyer, politician and Regius Professor of Civil Law at Oxford *Richard Phillimore (1864–1940), Royal Navy admiral *Robert Phillimore, 1st Baronet (1810–1885), English judge and politician *Stephen Phillimore (1881–1956), Anglican Archdeacon of Middlesex *Walter Phillimore, 1st Baron Phillimore (1845–1929), British lawyer and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augustus Phillimore
Admiral Sir Augustus Phillimore (24 May 1822 – 25 November 1897) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth. He is credited with first proposing the creation of a modern naval dockyard in Gibraltar. Early life Phillimore was born on 24 May 1822 at Whitehall in Westminster, London the son of Joseph Phillimore later a professor of civil law at Oxford and his wife Elizabeth. He was educated at Westminster before joining the Royal Navy College at Portsmouth. Naval career Phillimore joined the Royal Navy in 1835. He served in the Carlist Wars and in the First Opium War. Promoted Commander in 1852, he was given command of HMS ''Medea'' in 1853 and, promoted Captain in 1855, he commanded HMS ''Curacoa'' and then HMS ''Defence''. He was appointed Senior officer Jamaica Division in 1868 and in charge of Jamaica Dockyard. Then Senior officer at Gibraltar in 1869 when he would have stayed in The Mount (Gibraltar). In 1871 he made the proposal th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claud Phillimore, 4th Baron Phillimore
Claud Stephen Phillimore, 4th Baron Phillimore (15 January 1911 – 29 March 1994) was an English architect specialising in larger country houses who succeeded to his family's title in 1990. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the Pitt Club. He was married to Anne Elizabeth Dorrien-Smith (b.1911), daughter of Major Arthur Dorrien-Smith. Their son Francis Stephen Phillimore (b. 1944) succeeded as 5th Baron Phillimore. Architectural Works These include: *Knowsley Hall, Prescot, Merseyside, (1953–54), reduction and reconstruction of the hall; construction of the New House in the grounds. *11 Binney Street, Mayfair, London (1957), interior remodelled with Aubrey Jenkins for Viscount Ridley. *The Dower House in the grounds of Arundel Castle, Sussex, (1959). *The Durdans, Epsom, Surrey (1950s), reduction and reconstruction. *Killruddery House, Bray, County Wicklow, Bray, County Wicklow, Republic of Ireland (1950s), reduction and reconstruction. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egerton Phillimore
Egerton Grenville Bagot Phillimore (20 December 1856 – 5 June 1937) was a British antiquarian of Welsh literature, language, and history. He published little but was widely regarded as the greatest living expert on Welsh placenames. Early life Phillimore was born at 21 Chester Square, in Belgravia, London, on 20 December 1856, the only son of John George Phillimore and Rosalind Margaret, ''née'' Knight-Bruce. Orphaned on the death of his mother in 1871, he was taken into the care of his uncle Sir Robert Joseph Phillimore. He went to Westminster Boys' School in London. He took his BA from Christ Church, Oxford in 1879 and an MA in 1883. He was admitted as a lawyer to the Middle Temple in 1877. Career While at Oxford, Phillimore met John Rhys, Whitley Stokes and others who stimulated his interest in Welsh culture. He learned the language and collected Welsh books and manuscripts. Phillimore developed his interest in the Welsh language producing articles for '' Bye- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greville Phillimore
Greville Phillimore (1821–1884) was a priest of the Church of England and hymnal compiler. Life He was the fifth son of Joseph Phillimore. He was educated successively at Westminster School, Charterhouse School, and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1842, and M.A. in 1844. Taking holy orders, he was curate at Henley-on-Thames and at Shiplake. In 1851 he became vicar of Downe-Ampney, near Cricklade in Gloucestershire; and in 1867 he returned as rector to Henley, where he remained until, in July 1883, he accepted the crown living of Ewelme There he died on 20 January 1884. Works Phillimore was joint editor with James Russell Woodford and Hyde Wyndham Beadon of ''The Parish Hymn Book'' (1863; enlarged edition of 1875). This was one of the first books to give exposure to John Mason Neale's translations of Greek hymns. Phillimore contributed, besides translations, eleven original hymns, several of which were then reprinted in other collections.Julian, John. ''Diction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Phillimore
Sir Henry Josceline Phillimore, OBE, PC (25 December 1910 – 4 June 1974) was an English barrister and judge, who served as a Lord Justice of Appeal from 1968 to 1974. Biography Henry Phillimore was the son of Charles Augustus Phillimore, a partner at Coutts Bank. His father's cousin was the prominent judge Walter Phillimore, 1st Baron Phillimore, himself the son of the judge Sir Robert Phillimore, 1st Baronet and grandson of the lawyer Joseph Phillimore. He was educated at Eton College, where he was an Oppidan, and Christ Church, Oxford, where he took second-class honours in Greats. He was called to the bar by the Middle Temple in 1934. He was the pupil of Edward Pearce, and after his pupillage joined his chambers. He joined the Western circuit and acquired a varied practice. He joined the Territorial Army as a gunner in July 1939, and was commissioned in December the same year. After serving in the Norwegian Campaign in 1940, he joined the Prisoner of War Departme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Phillimore
Sir John Phillimore CB (18 January 1781 – 21 March 1840) was an officer of the Royal Navy who saw service during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He was involved in several notable actions during his active career, taking part in both Battles of Copenhagen, sending Sir Hyde Parker's famous signal to Nelson in the first, and fighting off Danish gunboats in the second. He went on to win a hard-fought victory over a French frigate in 1814 and reaped the rewards. He was at times a controversial figure, causing a scandal when he thrashed the naval historian William James with a stick for apparently badly representing Phillimore's conduct, and on another occasion inviting rebuke from the Navy Board for his request for more paint for his ship. He nevertheless became an aide-de-camp to the young Queen Victoria, and took important steps to reform how the lower ranks and ordinary seamen were treated in the Navy. Family and early life Phillimore was born on 18 January ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John George Phillimore
John George Phillimore (1808–1865) was an English barrister, known as a jurist and Liberal Party politician. Life The eldest son of Joseph Phillimore, he was born on 5 January 1808, and was educated at Westminster School. On 28 May 1824 he matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, of which he was faculty student, and graduated B.A. in 1828, having taken a second class in the classical schools; he proceeded M.A. in 1831. From 1827 to 1832 Phillimore held a clerkship in the Board of Control for India, and on 23 November 1832 was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn, where he was elected a bencher in 1851. In 1850 Phillimore was appointed reader in civil law and jurisprudence at the Middle Temple. In 1851 he took silk, and in the following year he was appointed reader in constitutional law and legal history to the Inns of Court. Phillimore represented Leominster as a Liberal in the Parliament of 1852–1857. He spoke on free trade Free trade is a trade policy that does not res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Swinnerton Phillimore
John Swinnerton Phillimore (26 February 1873 – 16 November 1926) was a British classical scholar, translator, and poet. Born at Boconnoc in Cornwall, Phillimore was, like his father, Augustus Phillimore before him, and four brothers, educated at Westminster School (1886-91), where he was a Queen's Scholar, before going on to read Literae Humaniores at Christ Church, Oxford, where he was also President of the Oxford Union. After taking his degree, he remained at Christ Church as a Student (Fellow and Tutor) until 1899, when he was made Professor of Greek at the University of Glasgow; in 1906 he became Professor of Humanity there, a position he held until his death. Though he was invited to give the Sather Lectures at the University of California, Berkeley, he was unable to do so because of the First World War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Phillimore
Joseph Phillimore (1775–1855) was an English civil lawyer and politician, Regius Professor of Civil Law at Oxford from 1809. Life The eldest son of Joseph Phillimore, vicar of Orton on the Hill, Leicestershire, by Mary, daughter of John Machin of Kensington, was born on 14 September 1775. He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he matriculated on 30 May 1793, graduated B.A. in 1797, B.C.L. in 1800, and proceeded D.C.L. in 1804. Admitted a member of the College of Advocates on 21 November 1804, he practised with success in the ecclesiastical and Admiralty courts, and in 1806–7 was commissioner for the disposal of Prussian and Danish ships seized by way of reprisals for the violation of the neutrality of Hanover by the Prussian government, and the submission of Denmark to France. In 1809 he succeeded French Laurence as regius professor of civil law at Oxford, chancellor of the diocese of Oxford, and judge of the court of admiralty of the Cinq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Phillimore
Admiral Sir Richard Fortescue Phillimore, (23 December 1864 – 8 November 1940) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth from 1923 to 1926. Naval career Phillimore was born at Boconnoc in Cornwall on 23 December 1864, the son of Admiral Sir Augustus Phillimore, and educated at Westminster School. He joined the Royal Navy in 1878, was promoted to lieutenant on 20 August 1886, and to commander on 1 January 1899. He was posted to on 27 March 1900, and joined her in the China Station where she took part in the response to the Boxer Rebellion later in 1900. He was given command of in 1903 and then led the Naval Brigade Machine Guns in Somaliland the next year. He was then given command of in 1907, in 1909 and the battlecruiser in 1911. Phillimore served in the First World War, resuming command of HMS ''Inflexible'' in 1914, and then as Principal Beach Master for the landings at Cape Helles in the Dardanelles in April 1915. He went on to be liais ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Phillimore
Sir Robert Joseph Phillimore, 1st Baronet (5 November 1810 – 4 February 1885), was an English judge and politician. He was the last Judge of the High Court of Admiralty from 1867 to 1875 bringing an end to an office that had lasted nearly 400 years. Life Born in Whitehall, he was the third son of Joseph Phillimore, a well-known ecclesiastical lawyer. Educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, where a lifelong friendship with W. E. Gladstone began, his first appointment was to a clerkship in the board of control, where he remained from 1832 to 1835. Admitted as an advocate at Doctors' Commons in 1839, he was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1841, and rose very rapidly in his profession. He was engaged as counsel in almost every case of importance that came before the admiralty, probate or divorce courts, and became successively master of faculties, commissary of the deans and chapters of St. Paul's Cathedral and Westminster Cathedral, official of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Phillimore
The Hon. Stephen Henry Phillimore, M.C. (14 December 1881 – 16 April 1956) was Archdeacon of Middlesex from 1933 until 1953. The son of Walter Phillimore, 1st Baron Phillimore, he was educated at Winchester and Christ Church. After a curacy at St Michael and All Angels, Bromley-by-Bow, he was Chaplain attached to the Brigade of Guards, 2nd Brigade. After the war he held incumbencies in Nakusp, Seaforth and Stepney, where he was Rural Dean from 1926 to 1933. He was Vicar of St Thomas, Regent Street, from 1934 to 1940; then Rector of St George's, Hanover Square, from 1940 to 1955. Crockford's Clerical Directory1955-56 Oxford, OUP Oxford University Press (OUP) is the university press of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world, and its printing history dates back to the 1480s. Having been officially granted the legal right to print books ...,1955 Notes 1881 births People educated at Winchester College Alumni of Chris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
