Phillips, Edward Hamilton Dalrymple, son of Edward Egerton Phillips (qv); b. 25 Apr. 1910; adm. Jan. 1924 (G); left Apr. 1924; Clare Coll. Camb., matric. 1929, BA 1932; St Barth. Hosp. Med. Sch., MRCS LRCP 1935; RAMC 1941-6 (Maj.), despatches (Med.) May 1946; Dip. in Anaesthesia RCP and RCS 1945; practised at Worcester Park, Surrey; recd 1973; m. 9 Sept. 1937 Aderyn Mary Lloyd, d. of Rev. Henry Martin Johnson, Rector of Alford, Somerset; d. 2009.
PHILLIPS, EDWARD, son of Edward Phillips, Westminster; b.; adm. (aged 11) Jan 1719/20; Min. Can. 1723; KS 1724; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1728, adm. pens. 1 Jul 1728, scholar 2 May 1729.
Phillips, Eustace Dockray, son of Rev. Arthur David Phillips, Vicar of Colden Common, Hants, and Hilda Mary, d. of Rev. Osbert Fynes-Clinton, Rector of Barlow Moor, Lancs; b. 27 Sept. 1910; adm. Sept. 1924 (R), KS Sept. 1925; left July 1929; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1929, BA 1933 (1st class hons Litt. Hum.), MA 1938; HM Office of Works 1934-7; asst lecturer in Classics Univ. of Bristol 1937-9, jun. lecturer Queen's Univ. Belfast 1939; lntell. Corps in WW2 (Lieut.); lecturer in Greek Queen's Univ. Belfast 1946, Reader 1955, Prof. of Greek Antiquities 1974-5, Emeritus 1976; FSA 1967, MRIA 197 5; author of The Royal Hordes: Nomad Peoples of the Steppes 1965, The Mongols 1969, Greek Medicine 1973; m. 9 Mar. 1935 Helen Aurelia, sister of Nigel Oliver Lucas (qv); d. 19 Mar. 1976.
Phillips, Gerald William, son of Arthur Phillips, of Ashtead, Surrey, barrister-at-law, by Emma Pratt, of Cambridge; b. July 19, 1884; adm. Jan. 21, 1897 (H); Q.S. (non-resident) 1899; elected head to Ch. Ch. Oxon. 1903, matric. Michaelmas 1903; B.A. 1907; M.A. 1920; ordained 1909; Curate of St. Thomas's, Oxford, 1909-11, of St. Andrew's, Worthing, Sussex, 1911-2; served in France in Great War I; 2nd Lieut. 6th Batt. Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry May 30, 1915; Lieut. Feb. 4, 1917; temp. Capt. Sept. 4, 1918; assist. master at Wells House, Springfield, Malvern Wells, 1925; received into the Roman Catholic Church; successively an asst. master at Stowe School and principal of Shoreham Grammar School, Sussex 1931-40; a Shakespearean scholar; author of Sunlight in Shakespeare's Sonnets (1935) and other works; d. June 19, 1956.
Phillips, Godfrey Sidney Philip, son of Morris G. P. Phillips and Gretta Wharton; b. 21 Mar. 1921; adm. from Repton Sch. May 1935 (R); left Apr. 1938; RNVR (A) in WW2; killed in action in HMS Patia 27 Apr. 1941.
Godfrey Sidney Philip Phillips was born at Chelsea, London on the 21st of March 1921 the only son of Morris Godfrey Philip Phillips and Annie Margaretta “Gretta” (nee Wharton formerly White) Phillips of 3, Kensington House, Kensington High Street, Kensington in London.
He was educated at Repton School and at Westminster School where he was up Rigaud’s from May 1935 to April 1938.
He enlisted in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve as a Leading Naval Airman 1st Class in the Fleet Air Arm before becoming an Ordinary Seaman. He was posted to the 5,500 ton naval auxiliary vessel HMS Paita which had been requisitioned by the Admiralty in September 1940 and had been fitted out as a aircraft catapult ship for the defence of convoys.
On the 27th of April 1941, HMS Patia, under the command of Commander David Marion Burton Baker RNR, set sail on her maiden voyage as part of a convoy. She was on her way to pick up a Hurricane Mk IA aircraft which was to operate from her. After nightfall HMS Patia was sailing near 20G Buoy off Coquet Island, some eight miles off Seaton Point in Northumberland when she was attacked by a Heinkel 111 bomber which dropped two 550lb bombs on her. The aircraft also fired on her with its machine guns, killing four of her crew. Both of the bombs fell short of the ship. Under heavy fire from HMS Patia’s gun crews the Heinkel turned for a second run and, although hit by anti aircraft fire, it dropped more bombs, one of which hit the ship causing a massive explosion. Hit by anti aircraft fire from the ship, the enemy aircraft was forced to ditch into the sea with the crew being taken prisoner.
HMS Patia had been badly damaged with many of her crew having been killed or wounded in the attack. As the stricken vessel began to sink the survivors climbed into lifeboats in the pitch black. The Boulmer lifeboat “Clarissa Langdon” was launched at 11pm and made for the site of the sinking where it found a great deal of wreckage but none of the crew. At daybreak they received a call from the local coastguard that three men had been seen on a life raft and these were rescued by the fishing boat “Primrose”. More men were later rescued and a number of bodies were recovered from the sea during the morning.
One of the lifeboats came ashore at Howick Burn with 41 survivors on board and another landed at Embleton Bay with 40 men on board, both making landfall at around 1am.
The Captain, seven officers and thirty one ratings had been killed during the attack.
He is commemorated on a brass plaque at Boulmer lifeboat station.
He is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial 50,2.
Phillips, Hugh Aylmer Pryse, son of John Hugh Pryse Phillips of Golders Green; b. 14 Aug. 1909; adm. Sept. 1922 (A), non-res. KS Sept. 1923; left July 1927; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1927, BA 1934; d. Jan. 1965.
Phillips, Percy Hepburn, son of James Cross Phillips, of Hampstead, by Anna, daughter of James Hepburn, of Hampstead; b. March 13, 1892; adm. Sept. 26, 1907 (H); left Dec. 1910; 2nd Lieut. 11th Batt. London Regt. July 15, 1912; Lieut. Jan. 22, 1914, Welch Regt. April 1, 1921; Capt. Jan. 1, 1923; served in Gallipoli July - Sept. 1915, Egypt April 1916 - Oct. 1918; Waziristan 1923-4; wounded at Suvla Bay Aug. 15, 1915; mentioned in despatches L.G. June 5, 1919; Major Nov. 28, 1936; Lieut.-Col. July 1940; Col. 1943; retired Oct. 1946; O.B.E. Jan. 1945.
Phillips, Richard Percival, brother of Gerald William Phillips (q.v.); b. Sept. 8, 1887; adm. Sept. 27, 1900 (H); left July 1906; Queen's Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1906; B.A. 1909; M.A. 1919; ordained 1910; Curate of Whitkirk, Yorks, 1910-4; D.D. Angelico Univ., Rome, 1921; Professor of Philosophy, St. John's Seminary, Wonersh, 1921-35; Rector of Haywards Heath (Roman Catholic), 1935-43; Parish Priest of St. Elizabeth's, Richmond, Surrey, since 1943; Canon of Southwark Roman Catholic Cathedral 1956; author of Modern Thomistic Philosophy (1934-5) and other works; d. Sept. 4, 1963.
PHILLIPS, ROBERT, son of Rev. Robert Phillips DD, Rector of Kinlet, Shropshire, and Margaret (Shipman ?) (IGI); bapt. Kinlet, Shropshire 25 Jul 1698 (IGI); adm.; QS (aged 13) 1714; saved Richard Wood (under school lists 1715, 1716) from drowning in Thames while learning to swim 1717; Balliol Coll. Oxford, matr. 11 Jul 1717, aged 18; BA 1721.
PHILLIPS, ROBERT; b.; adm.; KS 1668; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1671, adm. pens. 20 Jun 1671, scholar 1672, matr. 1674/5; BA 1674/5; MA 1678.