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Phillpotts
Phillpotts is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Adelaide Phillpotts Mary Adelaide Eden Ross (née Phillpotts; 23 April 1896 – 4 June 1993) was an English novelist, poet and playwright. She married at the age of 55 leaving behind her father who had controlled their incestuous relationship. Life Phillpotts was ... (1896–1993), English novelist, poet and playwright * Ambrosine Phillpotts (1912–1980), British actress * Bertha Phillpotts (1877–1932), English scholar * Brian Surtees Phillpotts (1875–1917), officer of the Royal Engineers * Eden Phillpotts (1862–1960), English author, poet, * George Phillpotts (1814–1845), New Zealand naval officer * Henry Phillpotts (1778–1869), Anglican Bishop of Exeter from 1830 to 1869 * James Surtees Phillpotts (1839–1930), author and editor, and headmaster of Bedford School * John Phillpotts (MP) (1775–1849), nineteenth-century English politician * Laurent Phillpotts (1922–2016), joined the RAF in 1943 * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Phillpotts
Henry Phillpotts (6 May 177818 September 1869), often called "Henry of Exeter", was the Anglican Bishop of Exeter from 1830 to 1869. One of England's longest serving bishops since the 14th century, Phillpotts was a striking figure of the 19th-century Church. Life Early life Henry Phillpotts, D.D., Bishop of Exeter, was born on 6 May 1778 at Bridgwater, Somerset, England, the son of John Phillpotts, a factory owner, innkeeper, auctioneer and land agent to the Dean and Chapter of Gloucester Cathedral. He grew up in Gloucestershire, and was educated at Gloucester Cathedral school. John Phillpotts, Member of Parliament (MP) for Gloucester city between 1830 and 1847, was his elder brother. Two other brothers, Thomas and George, and two sisters, Isabella and Sibella, reached adulthood; a number of other siblings died in infancy or childhood.Phillpotts, Percy (c. 1910), ''A Phillpotts Genealogy'', unpublished manuscript in family possession. Elected a scholar of Corpus Christ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eden Phillpotts
Eden Phillpotts (4 November 1862 – 29 December 1960) was an English author, poet and dramatist. He was born in Mount Abu, India, was educated in Plymouth, Devon, and worked as an insurance officer for ten years before studying for the stage and eventually becoming a writer. Life Eden Phillpotts was a great-nephew of Henry Phillpotts, Bishop of Exeter. His father Henry Phillpotts was a son of the bishop's younger brother Thomas Phillpotts. James Surtees Phillpotts the reforming headmaster of Bedford School was his second cousin. Eden Phillpotts was born on 4 November 1862 at Mount Abu in Rajasthan. His father Henry was an officer in the Indian Army, while his mother Adelaide was the daughter of an Indian Civil Service officer posted in Madras, George Jenkins Waters.''Dictionary of National Biography'', article by Thomas Moult Henry Phillpotts died in 1865, leaving Adelaide a widow at the age of 21. With her three small sons, of whom Eden was the eldest, she returned to Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bertha Phillpotts
Dame Bertha Surtees Phillpotts (25 October 1877 – 20 January 1932) was an English scholar in Scandinavian languages, literature, history, archaeology and anthropology. Biography Phillpotts was born in Bedford on 25 October 1877. Her father, James Surtees Phillpotts (1839–1930), was headmaster of Bedford School and instrumental in turning it from a relatively obscure grammar school to a top-ranking public school. Her mother, Marian Hadfield Phillpotts (née Cordery; 1843–1925), was a competent linguist. Having received all of her basic education at home, in 1898, Phillpotts won a Pfeiffer Scholarship to Girton College in the University of Cambridge, where she studied medieval and modern languages, Old Norse and Celtic under Hector Munro Chadwick. She graduated in 1901 with First Class honours. She then obtained a Pfeiffer Studentship which enabled her to travel to Iceland and Copenhagen to pursue her research. From 1906 to 1909, she worked as librarian at Girton Colle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Phillpotts
Lieutenant George Phillpotts (1814 – 1 July 1845) was an officer of the Royal Navy. He was born in Durham, England, Durham, England in or about 1814. Career George Phillpotts entered the Royal Navy on 5 September 1827, advanced to mate through examination on 26 November 1833, served on HMS Asia (1824), HMS ''Asia''. However, in January 1841, General William Dyott, 63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot, 63rd Regiment, observed that he'd left the navy and was helping his friend Richard Dyott (died 1891), Dick Dyott, the General's son, and the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party: "On the 6th a friend of Dick's, Mr. Phillpotts, a son of the Henry Phillpotts, Bishop of Exeter's, came for two nights, and was an able help in assisting at our party the following day. He had been in the navy, but on account of his father's politicks could not obtain promotion and quitted, and was employing himself in a colliery and in iron works at Dudley. Dick made acquaintance with him at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Surtees Phillpotts
James Surtees Phillpotts (18 July 1839 – 16 October 1930) was a reforming Headmaster of Bedford School and the author and editor of a number of educational books. Biography Born in Cornwall on 18 July 1839, James Surtees Phillpotts was a grandson of Henry Phillpotts, the well known polemicist and Anglican Bishop of Exeter. William Phillpotts, his father, was Archdeacon of Cornwall and vicar of St Gluvias church, Penryn. His mother Louisa Buller was the sister of James Wentworth Buller M.P. and an aunt of General Sir Redvers Henry Buller. James Phillpotts was educated at Winchester College and at New College, Oxford, where, in accordance with the provisions that existed at that time, he was elected a Fellow on going up in 1858. He won the Stanhope Prize in 1859. He passed his Honour Moderations (Mods) in Classics in 1860 and his Literae Humaniores (Greats) in 1862, achieving a first class in both and thus completing his B.A. degree. Thereupon he immediately proceeded to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Phillpotts (MP)
John Phillpotts (1775–1849), of Spa Villa and Bear Land, Gloucester and Porthgwidden, Cornwall, was a nineteenth-century English politician. Life John Phillpotts was the eldest son of John Phillpotts (1743–1814), a Herefordshire landowner, businessman and sometime Land Agent to the Dean and Chapter of Gloucester Cathedral, and his wife Sibella Glover (1753–1833); he was the elder brother of Henry Phillpotts, Bishop of Exeter.''A Phillpotts Genealogy'', unpublished manuscript, Percy Phillpotts, c.1910 John Phillpotts was born at Bridgwater in Somerset while his father was operating a brick and tile factory in that town. John Phillpotts practised as an attorney in Gloucester and held the post of Registrar to the Dean and Chapter of the cathedral. He was Mayor of Gloucester for one term (1819–20). He dined at the Inner Temple and was called to the bar in 1822, after which he served as a magistrate at the Gloucester sessions and on the Oxford circuit.''The History of P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Surtees Phillpotts
Brian Surtees Phillpotts DSO (1875 – 4 September 1917) was an officer of the Royal Engineers who fought in the First World War and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order. He was killed in action in September 1917. Biography Brian "Broo" Surtees Phillpotts was the second surviving son of James Surtees Phillpotts, the reforming headmaster of Bedford School, and of Marian Hadfield Phillpotts. His sisters included Dame Bertha Surtees Phillpotts, a scholar of Scandinavian studies, and Marjory Surtees Phillpotts, captain of the England Ladies Hockey Team. He was born in 1875 and educated at Bedford School, where he showed an aptitude for craft work including the construction of small boats. He opted for a military career and in 1893 entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (headquarters of the Royal Corps of Engineers), from where he pursued a course at the Royal School of Military Engineering in Chatham. After leaving Chatham he specialised in submarine mining and wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelaide Phillpotts
Mary Adelaide Eden Ross (née Phillpotts; 23 April 1896 – 4 June 1993) was an English novelist, poet and playwright. She married at the age of 55 leaving behind her father who had controlled their incestuous relationship. Life Phillpotts was born in Ealing, London and went to a local boarding school and then to Grassendale School in Southbourne, Dorset. Later she studied social care at Bedford College. As a 12-year-old girl she looked up to her slightly older Torquay neighbour Agatha Miller (later known to the world as Agatha Christie). Her father, the successful and prolific writer Eden Phillpotts, was impressed enough by Agatha's early work to help her with it, but at that point unsuccessfully. Amongst other literary celebrities who visited the Phillpotts family were Thomas Hardy and Arnold Bennett. Eden Phillpotts treated his daughter as an extension of himself. Her long-held secret, revealed in an interview in 1976 long after her father had died, was that the relati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Phillpotts
William John Philpotts (26 May 1807 in Bishop Middleham – 10 July 1888 in St Gluvias) was Archdeacon of Cornwall from 1845 until his death. Life William John Phillpotts was the eldest son of Henry Phillpotts, Bishop of Exeter and Deborah Phillpotts née Surtees. He was born at Bishop Middleham while his father was chaplain to the Bishop of Durham. He was educated at Charterhouse School, Laleham School (under headmaster Thomas Arnold) and Oriel College, Oxford, matriculating in 1825, graduating B.A. in 1830, and studying divinity under John Henry Newman.''Western Morning News'' 11 July 1888 In 1831, at Exeter, William Phillpotts was ordained deacon, the ceremony being conducted by his own father the Bishop. The first living he held was at Lezant in Cornwall. From 1832 to 1845 he was vicar of Hallow with Grimley in Worcestershire. In 1845 he succeeded the Venerable John Sheepshanks as Archdeacon of Cornwall and vicar of St Gluvias near Penryn. He remained in both posts for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Murray Phillpotts
Brigadier General Louis Murray Phillpotts, (3 June 1870 – 8 September 1916) was a senior British Army officer during the First World War. Early life Louis Murray Phillpotts was born on 3 June 1870 in Lamerton near Tavistock in Devon. His father, the Reverend Henry Phillpotts (1833-1919) (eldest son of Archdeacon William Phillpotts and grandson of Henry Phillpotts, Bishop of Exeter) was at that time vicar of Lamerton. Louis was educated at Bedford School (under the headmastership of his uncle James Surtees Phillpotts) and at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. British Army Louis Phillpotts received his first commission as a second lieutenant in the Royal Artillery on 14 February 1890, and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant on 14 February 1893. He served during the Second Boer War, between 1899 and 1901, where he fought in the Battle of Modder River (November 1899) and took part in the Relief of Kimberley in February 1900. He was promoted to the rank of captain on 23 Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambrosine Phillpotts
Ambrosine Phillpotts (13 September 1912 – 12 October 1980) was a British actress of theatre, TV, radio and film. ''The Times'' wrote, "She was one of the last great stage aristocrats, a stylish comedienne best known for playing on stage and screen a succession of increasingly 'grandes dames' with an endearing mixture of Edwardian snobbery and eccentric absent-mindedness". Partial filmography * '' This Man Is Mine'' (1946) - Lady Daubney * '' The Chiltern Hundreds'' (1949) - Lady Fielding * '' The Franchise Affair'' (1951) - Miss Spence * ''Happy Go Lovely'' (1951) - Lady Martin * ''Mr. Denning Drives North'' (1952) - Miss Blade * '' Angels One Five'' (1952) - Mother at Party (uncredited) * '' Stolen Face'' (1952) - Miss Patten - Fur Department Clerk * ''Father's Doing Fine'' (1952) - Nurse Pynegar (uncredited) * '' The Captain's Paradise'' (1953) - Marjorie (with the major) * '' Aunt Clara'' (1954) - Sylvia Levington (uncredited) * ''The Adventures of Quentin Durward'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurent Phillpotts
Laurent Lloyd Phillpotts (30 August 1922 – 11 January 2016) joined the RAF in 1943 after an appeal by King George VI George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George; 14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death in 1952. He was also the last Emperor of Ind ....Neglected war veterans exist on one meal a day ''The Independent''. 8 November 2003. Retrieved 20 February 2017. He helped set up ''The West Indian Association of Service Personnel'', formerly named ''The West Indian ex-Servicemen's Association''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
