PRICE, CHASE, fourth son of John Price, Knighton, Radnorshire, and his second wife Elizabeth, dau. of William Chase; b.; adm. (aged 13) May 1745 (Watts'); left 1749; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 24 May 1749; adm. Inner Temple 15 Oct 1751, called to bar 10 Feb 1757; MP Leominster 1 Dec 1759 – Mar 1767, Radnorshire from 1768; m. 21 Mar 1766 Sarah, sister of William Evelyn (adm. 1743/4, qv); d. 28 Jun 1777.
Powell, William Thomas Rowland, 1815-1878
POWELL, WILLIAM THOMAS ROWLAND, elder son of William Edward Powell (qv), and his first wife; b. 4 Aug 1815; adm. 24 May 1830 (Stikeman's); Ensign, 37th Foot 1 Jun 1832; Lieut., 26 Jun 1835; Capt., 6 Apr 1838; retd. 1 Mar 1839; MP (Conservative) Cardiganshire 1859-65; DL JP Cardiganshire; m. 1 May 1839 Rosa Edwyna, elder dau. of William George Cherry, Buckland, Herefs.; d. 13 May 1878. [Perhaps “Thomas Powell, Esq., Aberystwyth”, who signed Play Protest 1847].
PORTLOCK, BENJAMIN; b.; adm.; KS 1677; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1682, adm. pens. 28 Jun 1682, scholar 9 May 1683; 6th in “ordo” 1685/6; BA 1685/6; MA 1689 (incorp. Oxford 9 Nov 1695); DCL Oxford 18 May 1702; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 12 Sep 1687, Major Fellow 6 Jul 1689 – c. 1698; Second Secretary to Duke of Ormonde, Lord Lieut. Ireland, Feb 1703 – Apr 1707; MP (I) Innistioge 1703-13; Taster of Wines (I) 1705-13; adm. King’s Inns, Dublin 18 Nov 1703; of Clapham, Surrey; left by his will mourning rings to Robert Friend (qv) and John Nicholl (qv); lic. to m. 29 Feb 1711/2 Elizabeth, dau. of Edward Bate, Maids Moreton, Bucks.; d. 6 Sep 1740.
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.
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.
Phillimore, Robert Joseph, 1810-1885
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, 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 George, 1808-1865
PHILLIMORE, JOHN GEORGE, eldest son of Joseph Phillimore (KS 1789, qv); b. 5 Jan 1808; adm. 22 Oct 1817 (G); KS 1820; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1824, matr. 28 May 1824, Westminster Student 1824-36, Faculty Student 1836-; BA 1828; MA 1831; Junior Clerk, Board of Control 1827-32; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 5 Feb 1828, called to bar 23 Nov 1832, Bencher Mich. 1851; QC 8 Jul 1851; Reader in Constitutional Law and legal History to Inns of Court 1852; MP (Whig/Liberal) Leominster 1852-7; author, An Introduction to the Study and History of the Roman Law, 1848, and other works; m. 1 Aug 1839 Rosalind Margaret, younger dau. of Right Hon. Sir James Lewis Knight-Bruce PC, Lord Justice of Appeal; d. 27 Apr 1865. DNB.
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.
Philipps, Richard Bulkeley Philipps, 1801-1857
PHILIPPS, RICHARD BULKELEY PHILIPPS, 1ST BARON MILFORD, only child of John Grant, Nolton, Haverfordwest, Pembs., and Mary Philippa Artemisia, only dau. of James Child, Bigelly House, Pembs.; b. 4 Jun 1801; adm. 17 Apr 1816 (Best's) (as Richard B. P. Grant); left Midsummer 1817; assumed surname of Philipps in lieu of Grant 10 Feb 1824, on inheriting estates of his cousin Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford (I) MP; Lord Lieut., Haverfordwest, from 19 Feb 1824; MP Haverfordwest 1826-34, 1837-47; created baronet 13 Feb 1828 and Baron Milford (UK) 21 Sep 1847; a Whig supporter in House of Commons and House of Lords; m. 1st, 14 Oct 1824 Eliza, only dau. of John Gordon, Hanwell, Middlesex; m. 2nd, 8 Jun 1854 Lady Anna Jane Howard, fourth dau. of William Howard, 4th Earl of Wicklow (I); d. 3 Jan 1857.