John George Phillimore (1808–1865) was an English barrister, known as a jurist and

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politician.

Life

The eldest son of

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, he was born on 5 January 1808, and was educated at

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. On 28 May 1824 he matriculated at

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, of which he was faculty student, and graduated B.A. in 1828, having taken a second class in the classical schools; he proceeded M.A. in 1831. From 1827 to 1832 Phillimore held a clerkship in the Board of Control for India, and on 23 November 1832 was

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, where he was elected a bencher in 1851. In 1850 Phillimore was appointed reader in civil law and

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at the

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. In 1851 he took silk, and in the following year he was appointed reader in

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and

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to the Inns of Court. Phillimore represented

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as a Liberal in the Parliament of 1852–1857. He spoke on

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, legal reform, and the

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. He died on 27 April 1865 at his residence, Shiplake House,

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Works

Phillimore's writings, all published at London, were: * ''Letter to the Lord Chancellor on the Reform of the Law'', 1846. * ''Thoughts on Law Reform'', 1847. * ''Introduction to the Study and History of the Roman Law'', 1848. * ''An Inaugural Lecture on Jurisprudence, and a Lecture on Canon Law'', 1851. * ''Principles and Maxims of Jurisprudence'', 1856. * ''Influence of the Canon Law'' (in ''Oxford Essays''), 1858. * ''Private Law among the Romans'', 1863. * ''History of England during the Reign of George the Third'' (one volume only), 1863.

Family

By his wife Rosalind Margaret, younger daughter of Sir James Lewis Knight-Bruce, he had issue an only son Egerton Grenville Bagot Phillimore, known as an antiquarian of Welsh language and history.Archives Network Wales, ''Phillimore, Egerton, papers''

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Phillimore, John George 1808 births 1865 deaths English barristers Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1852–1857 People educated at Westminster School, London Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Members of Lincoln's Inn 19th-century King's Counsel