SIR

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• PHILIP
• PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
• PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
• PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
• PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)

PHILIP DE MALPAS

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• GREY, CHARLES GREY, 2ND EARL (1764-1845)
• GREY, HENRY GREY, 3RD EARL (1802-1894)
• GREY, LADY JANE (1537-1554)
• GREY, SIR EDWARD
• GREY, SIR GEORGE (1812–1898)

GREY

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• SIR PHILIP DE MALPAS GREY EGERTON

EGERTON  , Bart . (28o6-1882), English palaeontologist, was born on thel3th of November 18o6, the son of the 9th baronet . He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1828 . While at college his interest in geology was aroused by the lectures of W . Buckland, and by his acquaintance with W . D . Conybeare . Subsequently when travelling in Switzerland with Lord Cole (afterwards 3rd earl of Enniskillen) they were introduced to Prof . L . Agassiz at Neufchatel, and determined to make a special study of fossil fishes . During the course of fifty years they gradually gathered together two of the largest and finest of private collections—that of Sir Philip Grey Egerton being at Oulton Park, Tarporley, Cheshire . He described the structure and affinities of numerous species in the publications of the Geological Society of London, the Geological Magazine and the Decades of the Geological Survey; and in recognition of his services the Wollaston medal was awarded to him in 1873 by the Geological Society .

He was elected F.R.S. in 1831, and was a trustee of the

British Museum . As a member of Parliament he represented the city of Chester in 183o, the southern division of Cheshire from 2835 until 1868, and the western division from 2868 to 2882 . He died in London on the 6th of April 1881 . His collection of fossil fishes is now in the British Museum .