Godfrey Walter Phillimore, 2nd Baron Phillimore (of

Shiplake Shiplake consists of three settlements: Shiplake, Shiplake Cross and Lower Shiplake. Together these villages form a civil parish situated beside the River Thames south of Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England. The river forms the parish bounda ...

in the

County of Oxford Oxfordshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the north west of South East England. It is a mainly rural county, with its largest settlement being the city of Oxford. The county is a centre of research and development, primarily ...

) (b

Henley-on-Thames Henley-on-Thames ( ) is a town and civil parish on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, England, northeast of Reading, west of Maidenhead, southeast of Oxford and west of London (by road), near the tripoint of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buc ...

29 December 1879; d

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28 November 1947) was an English peer, soldier and author. He was the eldest surviving son of

Walter Phillimore, 1st Baron Phillimore Walter George Frank Phillimore, 1st Baron Phillimore, (21 November 1845 – 13 March 1929), known as Sir Walter Phillimore, 2nd Baronet, from 1885 to 1918, was a British lawyer and judge. Biography Phillimore was the son of Sir Robert Phillimo ...

and his wife Agnes, daughter of Charles Manners Lushington, M.P. He was educated at

Christ Church, Oxford Christ Church ( la, Ædes Christi, the temple or house, '' ædēs'', of Christ, and thus sometimes known as "The House") is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, the college is uniqu ...

and was admitted to the

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on 1 November 1900. He withdrew without being

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on 13 January 1928. During

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he served with the

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. He wrote a book about his time in

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entitled "Recollections of a prisoner of war". He married twice, but his eldest son, Anthony Francis, predeceased him, having been killed near Arras, France, 23 May 1940, in

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1879 births 1947 deaths Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford 2 Deputy Lieutenants of Oxfordshire Recipients of the Military Cross Highland Light Infantry officers English male writers {{UK-baron-stub