PHILLIPS, DAVID (son of a ship builder). _b._ Aberarth,
Cardiganshire 19 Jany. 1831; articled to T. R. Guppy, civil
engineer 1846; in the steam factory at Portsmouth dockyard
1853–5; assistant engineer in service of P. and O.S.N. Co. at
Bombay 1855, reclaimed the foreshore and built a dockyard 1861,
superintending engineer 1865, chief engineer Hong Kong 1868–71;
on commission on corrosion of boilers in the navy 1874; on the
Thunderer boiler explosion committee 1876; experimented on
boiler explosions etc. 1876 to death; M.I.C.E. 14 Jany. 1868.
_d._ Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire 31 May 1894. _Min. of
proc. of Instit. of C.E. cxviii_ 450–2 (1894).
PHILLIPS, ELIZABETH (dau. of Thomas Rouse, lessee of Grecian
theatre, London, or of lieutenant James Rous of Fulham,
Middlesex). _b._ 1810; exhibited 7 pictures at R.A., 4 at B.I.,
and 27 at Suffolk st. 1832–78; assisted her husband in his
panoramas of The Ganges and of The Queen’s visit to Ireland;
among her better known pictures are The Dutch collection,
Grandfather’s cup and The Erasmus chapel in Westminster abbey;
_m._ 1837 Philip Phillips, the artist, he _d._ 29 May 1864;
resided at Stockwell, South London. _d._ 28 Jany. 1887. _Ellen
C. Clayton’s English female artists ii_ 230–4 (1876); _A.
Graves’ Dictionary of artists_ (1895) 218.
PHILLIPS, GEORGE (3 son of Francis Phillips of Dunwich, Suffolk,
farmer). _b._ Otley, Suffolk 11 Jany. 1804; master in Woodbridge
gr. sch.; master in Worcester gr. sch. to 1824; entered Magdalen
hall Oxf. 19 June 1824; migrated to Queen’s coll. Camb. 25 Oct.
1825; eighth wrangler 1829, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832, B.D. 1839,
D.D. 1859, scholar of his college 1827, fellow 1830–46, tutor
to 1846, president Sept. 1857 to death; R. of Sandon, Essex
1846–57, restored the church; vice-chancellor of Camb. 1861–2;
founded and endowed a scholarship at Queen’s coll. of the annual
value of £40 in 1887; placed a clock called the Phillips clock
in the tower of Otley parish church 1887; author of A brief
treatise on the use of a case of instruments 1823, 2 ed. 1830;
A compendium of algebra 1824; The elements of euclid 1826;
Summation of series by definite integrals 1832; A commentary
on the Psalms, 2 vols. 1846, 2 ed. 1872; Short sermons on old
Messianic texts, Cambridge 1863; Mar Yâkúb’s Scholia on the Old
Testament 1864; Mar Yâkúb’s Letter on Syriac orthography 1869;
A Syriac grammar 1866; The doctrine of Addac the apostle 1876.
_d._ president’s lodge, Queen’s college, Cambridge 5 Feb. 1892.
_bur._ Mullingar, co. Westmeath. _Cambridge Review 11 Feb. 1892
p._ 192; _I.L.N. 13 Feb. 1892 p._ 197 _portrait_.
PHILLIPS, GEORGE LORT (1 son of John Lort Phillips, _d._ 1839).
_b._ 4 July 1811; educ. Harrow 1825 etc. and Trin. coll. Camb.;
sheriff of Pembrokeshire 1843; M.P. Pembrokeshire 19 Jany. 1861
to death. _d._ of injuries received while hunting Lawrenny park,
near Pembroke 30 Oct. 1866.
PHILLIPS, GEORGE ROBERT. _b._ 19 Dec. 1820; cornet 5 Madras
cavalry 9 Oct. 1839, captain 23 Nov. 1856; major Madras staff
corps 18 Feb. 1861, lieut. col. 18 June 1865; placed on
unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; L.G. 14 Jany. 1887.
_d._ Hampstead 24 Jany. 1891.
PHILLIPS, GEORGE SEARLE. _b._ Peterborough Jany. 1816; educ.
Trin coll. Camb.; on staff of the New York World and the Herald
in New York 1836, returned to England 1837; settled at Sturton,
Lincolnshire 1838, a lecturer, removed to Tuxford, Notts.
1842, and to Leeds 1844; second master in school of Mechanics’
institute Leeds 1844; edited the Leeds Times 1845; secretary
of the People’s college at Huddersfield 1846; lecturer to the
Yorkshire union of mechanics’ institutes and literary societies
1854; on the staff of the Chicago Tribune; literary editor of
the New York Sun some years; confined in the Trenton lunatic
asylum 1873, and in the Morristown asylum New Jersey 1876 to
death; author under the pseudonym January Searle of The life,
character, and genius of Ebenezer Elliott the corn-law rhymer
1850, 2 ed. 1852; Chapters in the history of a life 1850; Leaves
from Sherwood forest 1850; The country sketch book of pastoral
scenes 1851; Memoirs of William Wordsworth 1852; Emerson, his
life and writings 1855; edited The history of Pel Verjuice by C.
R. Pemberton 1853; author of A guide to Peterborough cathedral
1843, 4 ed. 1853; The gypsies of the Danes’ dyke 1864; The
American republic foreshadowed in scripture 1864; Chicago and
her churches 1868; edited with F. R. Lees The truth seeker in
literature 1846–8. _d._ Morristown asylum New Jersey 14 Jany.