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PHILLIMORE, WALTER GEORGE FRANK, 1ST BARON PHILLIMORE, only son of Sir Robert Joseph Phillimore, Bart. (qv); b. 21 Nov 1845; adm. 11 Nov 1857 (G); QS (Capt. ) 1859; Capt. of the School 1862; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1863, matr. 27 May 1863; Treasurer, Oxford Union 1866; 1st cl. Classics (Mods) 1865, 1st cl. Lit. Hum. 1866; 1st cl. Law and Modern History 1867; BA 1867; BCL 1870; DCL 1875; Fellow, All Souls Coll. 1867-71; Vinerian Law Scholar 1868; adm. Middle Temple 21 Nov 1865, called to bar 17 Nov 1868, Bencher 1888, Treasurer 1908; patent of precedence Dec 1883; succ. father as 2nd baronet 4 Feb 1885; Chancellor, Diocese of Lincoln 1872-97; contested (Liberal) St. George’s, Hanover Square 1885, Henley 1886 1892; Judge of Queen’s Bench Division, High Court of Justice 1897-1913; Lord Justice of Appeal Oct 1913 – autumn 1916, retd.; Privy Councillor 19 Dec 1913; created Baron Phillimore 2 Jul 1918; President, Naval Prize Tribunal 1918-28; British member, Council of League of Nations for solving German and Polish disputes 1924; GBE 1928; LLD Edinburgh 1898; LLD Birmingham 1918; hon. FBA; President, International Law Association 1905-8; inherited Phillimore estate, Kensington, in 1900; Alderman, Kensington BC, Mayor 1909-11; President, English Church Union 1919-20; Commander, Order of the Crown (Belgium) 1921; JP Oxfordshire; Busby Trustee from 17 Jun 1884; Governor of the School from 1885; Vice-Pres., Elizabethan Club 1917-20, President from 1920; benefactor to the School; author, Three Centuries of Treaties of Peace and their Teaching, 1917, and other works; m. 26 Jul 1870 Agnes, eldest dau. of Charles Manners Lushington MP, Norton Court, Kent; d. 13 Mar 1929. DNB.

PHILLIMORE, ROBERT, son of Joseph Phillimore (in school list 1764, qv); b. 19 Oct 1783; adm.; KS 1797; played cricket at Lord’s v. Eton 31 Jul 1800, 31 Jul 1801; Capt. of the School 1801; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1802, matr. 29 May 1802, Westminster Student; BA 1806; MA 1808; an Usher at the School 1805-7; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 5 Feb 1808; ordained 1810; Perpetual Curate of Hawkhurst, Kent 11 Nov 1812 – 18 Aug 1814; Vicar of Shipton-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire 20 Oct 1814; Rector of Slapton, Bucks., from 20 Apr 1815; JP Oxfordshire; d. unm. 25 Sep 1852.

PHILLIMORE, SIR ROBERT JOSEPH, BART., third son of Joseph Phillimore (b. 1775, qv); b. 5 Nov 1810; adm. 1 Feb 1820 (G); KS 1824; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1828, matr. 16 May 1828, Westminster Student; BA 1832; MA 1834; BCL 1835; DCL 1838; Clerk, Board of Control 20 Feb 1832 – 6 Apr 1835; adm. Middle Temple 17 Nov 1837, called to bar 7 May 1841, Bencher 1858, Treasurer 1859; adm. advocate, Doctors’ Commons 2 Nov 1839; Chancellor, Dioceses of Chichester 1844, Salisbury 1845 and London 1855; QC 16 Jan 1858; MP (Peelite/Liberal) Tavistock Feb 1853-7; Admiralty Advocate 1855-62; Judge of Cinque Ports 1855-75; Queen’s Advocate 1862-7; knighted 17 Sep 1862; Dean of Arches 1867-75, Master of the Faculties 1873-5; Judge of High Court of Admiralty 1867-75; Privy Councillor 3 Aug 1867; Judge of Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division, High Court of Justice 1875-83; Judge Advocate-General 17 May 1871 – Aug 1873; created baronet 28 Dec 1881; a personal friend and political supporter of Gladstone; gave evidence before the Public Schools Commission 23 Jun 1862 (Parliamentary Papers 1864, vol. xxi, pp 428-32); Busby Trustee 19 May 1868- Jun 1884; Governor of the School from 1869; benefactor to the School; President, Elizabethan Club, from 1876; translated Lessing, Laocoon 1874; author, Commentaries on International law, 1854-61, and other legal works; m. 19 Dec 1844 Charlotte Anne, third dau. of John Denison MP, Ossington Hall, near Newark, Notts.; d. 4 Feb 1885. DNB.

In 1863 and 1864 he gave prizes for an English essay, and in the latter year he expressed his intention of giving an annual prize of £6 6s for the essay, and a further prize of £3 3s. for translation into English. These prizes were awarded by him up to his death in 1885, and continued to be awarded after his death from funding supplied by his son Walter George Frank Phillimore, 1st Baron Phillimore (qv), also one of the School’s benefactors.

Phillimore, The Hon. Robert Charles, eldest son of Walter George Frank Phillimore (q.v.), Baron Phillimore; b. Aug. 19, 1871; adm. as Q.S. June 3, 1885; left July 1887; Ch. Ch. Oxon., matric. Oct. 11, 1889; president O.U. Soc. 1892; called to the bar at the Middle Temple June 26, 1895; served in a hospital for French soldiers at Arc-en-Barrois, France, in Great War I; m. Dec. 12, 1895, Lucy, eldest daughter of William Fitzpatrick, of Locust Lodge, co. Down; d. Sept. 12, 1919.

PHILLIMORE, RICHARD, fifth son of Joseph Phillimore (KS 1789, qv); b. 9 Aug 1823; adm. 18 Jan 1834; KS (Capt. ) 1836, elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1840, matr. 3 Jun 1840, Westminster Student; drowned in the Isis at Sandford Lasher 23 Jun 1843, while endeavouring to save his friend William Gaisford. Buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.

Phillimore, Reginald Henry, brother of John Ernest Phillimore (q.v.); b. June 19, 1879; adm. as Q.S. Sept. 28, 1893; left July 1896; R.M.A. Woolwich 1896; 2nd Lieut. R.E. June 23, 1898; Lieut. April 17, 1901; Capt. June 23, 1907; Major March 29, 1915; Brevet Lieut.-Col. June 3, 1919; Indian Survey June 28, 1903, officiating Director Northern Circle, since March 1926; served in France Aug. 1915 - Feb. 1916, and Salonika Feb. 1916 - March 1919; mentioned in despatches L.G. Dec. 6, 1916, June 11, 1918, Jan. 30, 1919, and June 5, 1919; Médaille d'Honneur avec Glaives; D.S.O. June 3, 1918; Col. 1923; officiating Surveyor-General of India 1931; retired 1934; re-employed as Capt. G.H.Q., Simla 1942; re-employed Survey of India, Delhi 1942-6; C.I.E. Jan. 1, 1944; author of Historical Records of Surviy of India vol. 1 (1946); m. Aug. 2, 1910, Eileen Elizabeth, third daughter of Samuel Crosthwait, of Bagnals­town, co. Carlow; d. 1964.

PHILLIMORE, JOSEPH, eldest son of Joseph Phillimore (in school list 1764, qv); b. 14 Sep 1775; adm.; in school list Dec 1788; KS 1789; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1793, matr. 30 May 1793, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1793 – void 28 Jun 1805; Chancellor’s Prize for English Essay 1798; BA 1797; BCL 1800; DCL 1804; adm. advocate, Doctors’ Commons 21 Nov 1804; practised with success in Ecclesiastical and Admiralty Courts; Regius Prof. of Civil Law, Oxford University, from 1809, also Chancellor, Diocese of Oxford, from 1809, and Prebendary of Salisbury, although a layman, from 12 Dec 1809; Judge of Cinque Ports from 1809; MP St. Mawes 17 Mar 1817-26, Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) 1826-30; Commissioner, Board of Control 8 Feb 1822 – Jan 1828; Admiralty Advocate from 25 Oct 1834; Chancellor, Diocese of Worcester, from 6 Nov 1834, and Dioces of Bristol from 1842; LLD Cambridge 1834; FRS 13 Feb 1840; Busby Trustee 23 May 1840; author, Reports of Ecclesiastical Cases, 1809-21, 1832-3; m. 19 Mar 1807 Elizabeth, third dau. of Walter Bagot (adm. 1739/40, qv) and his first wife; d. 24 Jan 1855. DNB.

Phillimore, John Swinnerton, son of Sir Augustus Phillimore (q.v.); b. Feb. 26, 1873; adm. as Q.S. Sept. 16, 1886; Mure Scholar 1888; Capt. of the School 1890; elected to Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1891, matric. Oct. 16, 1891; Hertford Scholar 1892; Craven Scholar 1892; Ireland Scholar 1893; Slade exhibition (German) 1893; 1st class Classics (Mods.) 1893; Chancellor's Prize for Latin Verse 1894; 1st class Lit. Hum. 1895; B.A. 1895; M.A. 1898; Lecturer of Ch Ch. 1895; Tutor 1896-9; Professor of Greek, Glasgow Univ., 1899-1906, of Humanity from 1906; LL.D. St. Andrews; D.Litt. Dublin 1921; author of Sexti Properti Carmina (1901), and other works; Busby Trustee June 20, 1916; m. July 26, 1900, Cecily, only daughter of the Rev. Spencer Compton Spencer-Smith, Vicar of Kingston, Dorset; d. Nov. 16, 1926.