Venn
Adm. pens. at QUEENS', Oct. 25, 1825. Of Suffolk. [3rd s. of Francis, farmer, of Otley. B. Jan. 11, 1804, at Dunwich. A Master at Woodbridge Grammar School and at Worcester Grammar School until 1824. Had been adm. at Magdalen College, Oxford, June 19, 1824, aged 20.] ' Matric. Lent, 1826; Scholar, 1827; B.A. (8th Wrangler) 1829; M.A. 1832; B.D. 1839; D.D. 1859. Fellow, 1831-46; tutor; President, 1857-92. Vice-Chancellor, 1861-2. Ord. deacon (Ely) 1831; priest, 1832. R. of Sandon, Essex, 1846-57. Married, Aug. 10, 1848, Emily Frances, dau. of Henry Pilkington, Esq., of Tore, Co. Westmeath. Gave £1000 in 1887 to found a scholarship and subscribed liberally to the cost of the new College Chapel. Also presented the Phillips clock to Otley Church in remembrance of the early years of his life spent there. Author, A Brief Treatise on the Use of a Case of Instruments; A Compendium of Algebra; Summation of Series by Definite Integrals; The Elements of Syriac Grammar; A Critical, Exegetical, and Philological Commentary on the Psalms; Short Sermons on Old Testament Messianic Texts; etc. Died Feb. 5, 1892, at the President's Lodge, Queens' College; buried at Mullingar, Co. Westmeath. Portrait by Herkomer in the President's Lodge. (Boase, II. 1504; D.N.B.; Crockford.)
Type | Name | Date | Qualification | University | Full Record |
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Ord | Phillips, George | 17/06/1832 | MA | Cambridge | View |