Godfrey Walter Phillimore, 2nd Baron Phillimore MC, DL[1] (of Shiplake in the County of Oxford) (b Henley-on-Thames 29 December 1879; d Cape Town 28 November 1947) was an English peer, soldier and author.[2]
He was the eldest surviving son of Walter Phillimore, 1st Baron Phillimore and his wife Agnes, daughter of Charles Manners Lushington, M.P. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford and was admitted to the Middle Temple on 1 November 1900.[3] He withdrew without being Called to the Bar on 13 January 1928. During World War I he served with the Highland Light Infantry. He wrote a book about his time in captivity entitled "Recollections of a prisoner of war". He married twice,[4] but his eldest son, Anthony Francis, predeceased him, having been killed near Arras, France, 23 May 1940, in World War II.[5]
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Notes
edit- ^ London Gazette
- ^ Lord Phillimore. The Times (London, England), Friday, 5 December 1947; pg. 7; Issue 50936
- ^ Sturgess, H.A.C. (1949). Register of Admissions to the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. Butterworth & Co. (Publishers) Ltd.: Temple Bar. Vol. 2, p.724.
- ^ ‘PHILLIMORE’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 6 Sept 2017
- ^ CWGC
- ^ Debrett's Peerage. 1973.
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