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PHILIPPS, SIR JOHN, BART. , eldest son of Sir Erasmus Philipps, Bart. , MP, and Catherine, dau. of Hon. Edward Darcy; b. ; adm. ; KS 1679 (as John Philips); elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1682, scholar 9 May 1683, matr. 1682; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 1684; MP Pembroke 1695-1702, Haverfordwest 4 Mar 1718-22; succ. father as 4th baronet 18 Jan 1697; prominent member of Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, and of Society for Promotion of Christian Knowledge, and an early patron of Methodism; m. 12 Dec 1697 Mary, dau. of Anthony Smith, East India merchant; d. 5 Jan 1737, aged 70.

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, 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.

PILKINGTON, SIR LIONEL, BART., eldest son of Sir Lyon Pilkington, Bart., and dau. of Sir Michael Wentworth, Kt, Wooley, Yorks.; bapt. 20 Jan 1706/7; succ. father as 5th baronet Jun 1716; adm. (aged 14) Sep 1721; in under school list 1722; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 14 May 1725; Grand Tour (Italy) 1731; member, Society of Dilettanti 1736; High Sheriff, Yorkshire 1741; MP Horsham 17 Dec 1748-68; d. unm. 11 Aug 1778.

PITT, RIDGEWAY, 3RD EARL OF LONDONDERRY (I), brother of Thomas Pitt, 2nd Earl of Londonderry (I) (qv); bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 16 Feb 1721 (IGI); adm. (aged 8) May 1730; recited verses at the Westminster Meeting 28 Jan 1730/1; succ. brother as 3rd Earl of Londonderry (I) 24 Aug 1734; left 1734; went to Bury St. Edmunds Sch.; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 25 Sep 1740, matr. 1740; MP Camelford 1747-54; d. unm. 8 Jan 1765.

PLOWDEN, WILLIAM HENRY CHICHELEY, brother of Richard Chicheley Plowden (adm. 1796, qv); b. 21 Apr 1787; in school lists 1801, 1803; Writer, EICS Canton 1805; Supercargo 1816; Third Member of Select Committee 1825, Second Member 1827, President 1829-33; director, East India Company 1841-53; MP Newport 1847-52; FRS 15 Apr 1847; DL JP Middlesex; one of HM Lieuts. , City of London; m. 1st, 3 Mar 1818 Katherine, dau. of William Harding, Baraset, Warwicks. [check if EICS Bengal]; m. 2nd, 18 Nov 1830 Jane Annette, widow of Joseph Nixon (qv), and dau. of Edward Campbell [niece of Sir Robert Campbell, Bart. , Chairman EI Company : so was father in EICS ?]; d. 29 Mar 1880.

POMEROY, ARTHUR, son of John Pomeroy, Devon; b.; adm.; in school lists 1656; KS ; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1657, matr. 22 May 1657, scholar 1658, matr. Mich. 1660; 10th in “ordo” 1660/1; BA 1660/1; MA 1664; DD 1676; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1661 – c. 1674; ordained; Chaplain to Earl of Essex, Lord Lieut. Ireland; Dean of Cork from 11 Feb 1672/3; Treasurer of Cloyne from 5 May 1673; Prebendary of Limerick 1 Oct 1674-8; m. Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Richard Osborne, Bart. MP (I), Ballintayler, co. Waterford; d. 1709/10.

POPHAM, SIR HOME RIGGS, brother of Stephen Popham (KS 1759, qv); b. 12 Oct 1760; adm. 14 Nov 1774; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 23 Jan 1776, but did not matr.; entered Royal Navy Feb 1778; Lieut., 16 Jun 1783; Commander 26 Nov 1794; Post Capt., 4 Apr 1795; Rear-Adm., 4 Jun 1814; engaged in East India and China trade, with Admiralty permission; nearly ruined by the capture of his trading ship Etrusco in 1793, which involved him in prolonged litigation; served in Flanders under Duke of York 1793-5; attended OWW dinners at Calcutta in 1801 and 1803 (Hickey, Memoirs, iv, 271, 494); his innocence of a charge of embezzlement was established by a Select Committee of the House of Commons 1805; Commander-in-Chief of expedition which conquered Cape of Good Hope Dec 1805 – Jan 1806; took a British expeditionary force from there to Buenos Aires, briefly captured in July 1806 but then recaptured by Spanish troops who took the British occupying garrison prisoners; superseded 5 Jan 1807 and severely reprimanded by court-martial Mar 1807; took part in expedition to Copenhagen 1808; Commander-in-Chief, Jamaica Station 1817-20; MP Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) 21 Mar 1804 – Jan 1806, Shaftesbury 1806-7, Ipswich 1807-12; received freedom, City of London 8 Jan 1808; KCB 2 Jan 1815; KCH 1818; FRS 18 Apr 1799; responsible for the code of signals adopted by the Admiralty in 1803 and used at the battle of Trafalgar; m. 19 Dec 1788 Elizabeth Moffat, eldest dau. of Capt. John Prince, EI Maritime Service; d. 11 Sep 1820. DNB.

POPHAM, STEPHEN, fourth son of Joseph Popham, HBM Consul Tetuan, Morocco, and his first wife Mary Riggs, Waterford; b. 5 Jul 1745; adm.; KS 1759; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1763, scholar 25 Jun 1764, matr. 1764; 4th Wrangler 1767; BA 1767; MA 1774; adm. Middle Temple 14 Apr 1762, Lincoln’s Inn 28 Nov 1772; attorney; MP (I) Castlebar 1776-83; went out to India as Secretary to Sir John Day, Advocate-Gen. Bengal, 1777; arrived Madras Feb 1778, and after a quarrel with Day went into practice at Madras as an attorney; Joint Solicitor to EI Company at Madras from 14 Jun 1782; m. 1st, at Paris 5 Apr 1768 (divorced 14 Jun 1774) Ann Yate Whiteside; m. 2nd, 16 Nov 1774 Anna, dau. of Sir William Thomas, Bart.; d. at Conjeeveram, Madras 13 Jun 1795, as a result of a fall from his curricle.