Sir John Philipps, 1st Baronet (died 27 March 1629) was a Welsh landowner and politician who sat in the

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in 1601.

Philipps was the son of Morgan Philipps of Picton and his wife Elizabeth Fletcher, daughter of Richard Fletcher of Bangor, Caernarvonshire. He was registrar of the diocese of Bangor. In 1585 he succeeded to the estate of

Picton Castle Picton Castle () is a medieval castle near Haverfordwest in the community of Uzmaston, Boulston and Slebech, Pembrokeshire, Wales. Originally built at the end of the 13th century by a Flemish knight, it later came into the hands of Sir John W ...

which had passed to his father from William Philipps who was MP for Pembrokeshire in 1559. He spent much of his life involved in property disputes. He was

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in 1595. History of Parliament Online - John Philipps
/ref> In 1601, Philipps was elected Member of Parliament for

Pembrokeshire Pembrokeshire ( ; ) is a Principal areas of Wales, county in the South West Wales, south-west of Wales. It is bordered by Carmarthenshire to the east, Ceredigion to the northeast, and otherwise by the sea. Haverfordwest is the largest town and ...

. He was appointed a J.P on 13 April 1603. In 1611 he was High Sheriff of Pembrokeshire again.W R Williams
''The Parliamentary History of the Principality of Wales''
Accessed 30 November 2022. He was created a

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on 9 November 1621.George E. Cokayne ''Complete Baronetage, Vol 1'' (1900)
/ref> He was

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for 1622–23. Philipps died in 1629 and was buried at

Slebech Slebech () was a community (prior to 1974, a civil parish) in Pembrokeshire, Wales, which is now part of the combined community of Uzmaston and Boulston and Slebech, a sparsely populated community on the northern shore of the Eastern River Cled ...

Family

Philipps married firstly Anne Perrot, daughter of

Sir John Perrot Sir John Perrot (7 November 1528 – 3 November 1592) was a member of the Welsh people, Welsh gentry who served as Lord Deputy of Ireland under Queen Elizabeth I of England during the Tudor conquest of Ireland. It was formerly speculated that he ...

and half-sister of Sir

Thomas Perrot Sir Thomas Perrot (1553 – 1594) was an Elizabethan courtier, soldier, and member of parliament. He campaigned in Ireland and the Low Countries, and was involved in the defence of England against the Spanish Armada. He was imprisoned several t ...

. He married secondly Margaret Dennys, daughter of Sir Thomas Dennys of Bicton, Devon. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son,

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. His daughter Dorothy married

Francis Annesley, 1st Viscount Valentia Francis Annesley, 1st Viscount Valentia, (1 February – 22 November 1660) was an English statesman during the colonisation of Ireland in the seventeenth century. He was a Member of Parliament for both the English and Irish houses, was eleva ...

and was mother of Arthur, 1st Earl of Anglesey''Burke's Dormant and Extinct Peerages'', p. 6

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Philipps, John Year of birth missing 1629 deaths Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for constituencies in Wales People from Bangor, Gwynedd High sheriffs of Pembrokeshire High sheriffs of Carmarthenshire English MPs 1601 1 17th-century Welsh landowners