Captain Chichester Phillips (1647–1728) was an English-born politician in seventeenth and early eighteenth-century Ireland. He sat as MP for

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in the

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in the Parliament of 1695–99. He was the owner of

Drumcondra Castle Drumcondra is the name of several places: * Drumcondra, Dublin, Ireland, a residential area on the Northside of Dublin ** Drumcondra railway station ** Drumcondra F.C., former football club * Drumconrath, a village in County Meath, Ireland, alterna ...

, Dublin. He is chiefly remembered today for giving the land to create Ireland's first

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Ballybough Ballybough () is an inner city district of northeast Dublin city, Ireland. Adjacent areas include the North Strand and Clonliffe. Location Ballybough is an inner city district of northeast Dublin. Neighbouring districts include Drumcondra to ...

, Dublin. Chichester Phillips was born in

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, England in 1647 to Chichester Phillips and Susannah Warner, daughter of the Reverend Thomas Warner, vicar of Balsham, and his wife Anne Eaton. The Phillips family had a long-standing connection with Ireland: Chichester's grandfather Sir

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played a key part in the

Plantation of Ulster The Plantation of Ulster ( gle, Plandáil Uladh; Ulster-Scots: ''Plantin o Ulstèr'') was the organised colonisation (''plantation'') of Ulstera province of Irelandby people from Great Britain during the reign of King James I. Most of the sett ...

. He founded the town of

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in 1610 and held lands at

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: he was governor of the County of Coleraine. Sir Thomas died in

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in 1636, leaving the Limavady estates to his eldest son Dudley. The junior branch of the family later settled in Dublin, where Chichester's father died in 1656. His mother remarried Sir Symon Eaton; she died in 1701. He married Sarah Handcock, daughter of William Handcock, MP for

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and Abigail Stanley, in

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, on 17 August 1685. They had six children: two daughters, Abigail Phillips Green, and Jane Phillips Blackburne, and four sons, Thomas, George, Marmaduke and Charles. Two of their sons became

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clergymen: Rev. Charles Phillips became Rector of Kilcolman, Co. Cork, and Rev. Marmaduke Phillips MA (TCD) DD served in

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and Matehy,

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. He was listed as an alderman of Dublin in 1696 and served in several regiments of foot as an ensign, lieutenant and captain. His last military appointment was as a captain in the Earl of Granard's Regiment of Foot under the colonelcy of Edward Brabazon, 4th Earl of Meath. After the

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he took the side of William of Orange against

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. In 1691, as a reward for his loyalty to William's cause, the Commissioners for Forfeited Estates sold him lands at

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which had been forfeited by the O'Mulledy family. In 1703 he purchased the

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. Ironically, his claim to Drumcondra was based originally on a

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from King James II. Captain Phillips on 28 October 1718 leased a plot of land, on which

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was subsequently built, to the

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, who had recently established a small community in Dublin.History of Jewish cemetery Ballybough
/ref> It is Ireland's oldest

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cemetery.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Phillips, Chichester 1647 births 1728 deaths Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Limerick constituencies People from Balsham