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PHILIPPS, JOHN WYNFORD (1st Viscount St. Davids, 13th Baronet, of Picton Castle), (1860 - 1938) Born on 30 May 1860, at the Vicarage, Warminster, Wiltshire, John Philipps was the eldest son of Sir James Erasmus Philipps, 12th Baronet, vicar of Warminster, and Mary Margaret Best. Sir James inherited the baronetcy as a descendant of Hugh Philipps, the second son of Sir John Philipps, the first baronet, but Sir Richard Philipps, Baron Milford, the seventh baronet, who died in 1823, had devised
PHILIPPS, LAURENCE RICHARD (1st. BARON MILFORD, 1st baronet), (1874 - 1962), philanthropist, industrialist, sportsman, and a member of one of the most prominent old gentry families of Pembrokeshire a member of Lloyd's, director of several well-known companies such as Schweppes, Ltd. and Ilford, Ltd. and he was one-time chairman of Northern Securities Trust, Ltd. He was created a baronet in 1919 and a baron in 1939, the third of the family to be raised to the peerage within one generation, being a brother to John Wynford Philipps (1860 - 1938), 1st Viscount St. Davids and of Owen Cosby
PHILIPPS, LEONORA (1862 - 1915), campaigner for women's rights death of both her parents within a year of each other when she was only fourteen years old. She was educated at Birkbeck University College and the Slade School of Fine Art, together with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, before her wedding on 14 February 1888 to Middle Temple barrister John Wynford Philipps (1860-1938), who became member of parliament for mid Lanarkshire later that year. As heir to
PHILIPPS, OWEN COSBY (Baron Kylsant), (1863 - 1937), ship-owner Born on 25 March 1863 at Warminster Vicarage, Wiltshire, the third son of the Reverend Sir James Erasmus Philipps and his wife, Mary Margaret Best. A more detailed account of the family will be found in the entry on his eldest brother, John Philipps, 1st Viscount St. Davids; two other brothers are also noticed separately: Sir Ivor Philipps and Laurence Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford. Sir
PHILIPPS, WOGAN (2nd Baron Milford), (1902 - 1993), politician and artist member of the Philipps family from Pembrokeshire, he took the title Milford from his ancestor, Richard Philipps of Picton Castle, who was created Baron Milford in the Irish peerage. Two of Laurence Philipps's brothers also became peers: John Wynford Philipps, 1st Viscount St. Davids (1860-1938) and Owen Cosby Philipps, Baron Kylsant (1863-1937). A third brother, Major-General Sir Ivor Philipps (1861
PHILLIMORE, EGERTON GRENVILLE BAGOT (1856 - 1937), scholar Born 20 December 1856 at 21, Chester Square, London, son of John George Phillimore (died 1865) of Shiplake House, near Henley-on-Thames, queen's councillor, an authority on canon law, like other members of his family, and Member of Parliament for Leominster (1852-7), and his wife, Rosalind Margaret, daughter of lord justice Knight-Bruce. He was educated at Windersham House, Amesbury, Westminster
PHILLIPPS, Sir THOMAS (1792 - 1872), antiquary, bibliophile, and collector of manuscripts, records, books, etc. ), this manuscript having 'strayed' from the Hengwrt collection (see Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt). The Sir John Williams collection of manuscripts in the National Library contains 108 Phillipps manuscripts, this group including the Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) manuscripts (details in J. H. Davies, Catalogue of Additional MSS. in the Sir John Williams Collection); at least thirty other Phillipps manuscripts
PHILLIPS, DANIEL (fl. 1680-1722), Independent minister a Carmarthenshire man, associated by tradition with the Philipps family of Picton. His sister Dorothy married Timothy Quarrell of Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire, of a family prominent in the history of Merionethshire and Montgomeryshire Independency (see Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru, i, 260, and Jenkins, Hanes … Hen Gapel Llanuwchllyn, 70-2); her daughter married John Kenrick of Wynne Hall
PHILLIPS, DAVID (1751 - 1825), Unitarian minister Phillips of St Clears and William Thomas of Llangyndeyrn. But in 1816, when the missioner Wright visited the church, Phillips had a coadjutor, a John Evans, who may possibly have been the man named on p. 500 of David Jones's Hanes Bed. Deheubarth, but is more likely to have been the John Evans who, at that time (1816-25), had charge of the Unitarians who then used Dark Gate chapel at Carmarthen. Phillips
PHILLIPS, DAVID (1812 - 1904), Calvinistic Methodist minister, poet and editor Born 14 December 1812 at Bancyfelin, Carmarthenshire, son of the Rev. Joshua Phillips (1785 - 1868) and grandson of John Phillips (1750 - 1842) of Meidrym, who was also a well-known Methodist preacher. As a young man he went to live at Maes-teg, Glamorganshire, where he was postmaster. He began to preach in 1839 and was, in some sense, the pastor of Tabor chapel. He was ordained in the
PHILLIPS, EDGAR (Trefîn; 1889 - 1962), tailor, school-teacher, poet, and Archdruid of Wales, 1960-62 Born 8 October 1889 in Rose Cottage, Tre-fin, Pembrokeshire, only child of William Bateman and Martha (née Davies) Phillips. His father was a sailor but after leaving the sea he was a baker in Porthcawl. Trefîn's mother died in 1898 after she had been a patient for 5 years in Saint David's Hospital in Carmarthen, and he was adopted by his father's sister, Mary, wife of John Martin, a sailmaker
PHILLIPS, EDWARD (1716 - c. 1776), cleric son of Edward Phillips of Llanfaredd, Radnorshire. He became a member of Jesus College, Oxford, 8 November 1734, 'at 18 years of age'; B.A. 1738. He was rector of Maesmynys, near Builth, 1740-76. Although, in all probability, he was at first opposed to Methodism, he invited John Wesley to Brecknock in 1743 and from that time on supported Methodism - both Wesleyan and Calvinistic.

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