Men-at-the-Bar/Phillimore, Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Joseph, Bart.

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3810509Men-at-the-Bar — Phillimore, Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Joseph, Bart.Joseph Foster


Phillimore, Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Joseph, Bart., so created 21 Dec., 1881, D.C.L., Christ Church, Oxon, 1838, M.A. 1834, official of archdeaconries of London and Middlesex 1840-62 (chancellor of dioceses of Chichester 1844, Salisbury 1845, Oxford 1855, official of archdeaconry of Oxford, commissary-general of St Paul's and Westminster, resigned these offices 1867), judge of Cinque Ports 1855-75, admiralty advocate 1855, H.M.'s advocate-general 1862-7, judge of High Court of Admiralty and judge of court of arches 1867-75, judge advocate-general 1871-3, master of the faculties 1873-5, a justice of the High Court of Justice, Probate and Admiralty Division, 1875-83, knighted 17 Sept., 1862, P.C. 1867, M.P. Tavistock 1853-7, king's scholar St Peter's Coll., Westminster, 1824, author of Ecclesiastical Law of the Church of England, of Commentaries on International Law, Law of Domicile, of Principal Ecclesiastical Judgments in the Court of Arches, Memoirs and Correspondence of George, Lord Lyttelton, 1734-73, an advocate of the Coll. of Laws 2 Nov., 1839, steward 1848, librarian 1854, a student of the Middle Temple 17 Nov., 1837, called to the bar 7 May, 1841, Q.C. 1858, bencher 1 Feb., 1858, treasurer 1870 (only son of late John George Phillimore, of Shiplake House, Oxon, bar.-at-law); born 5 Nov., 1810; died 4 Feb., 1885; married 19 Dec., 1844, Charlotte, 3rd dau. of late John Denison, Esq., M.P., of Ossington Hall, Yorks, and had issue (see Foster's Baronetage).

The Coppice, Henley-on-Thames; Athenæum Club, S.W.