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SIR ROBERT JOSEPH PHILLIMORE (1810-1885)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 405 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:ROBERT See also:JOSEPH See also:PHILLIMORE (1810-1885)  , See also:English See also:judge, third son of a well-known ecclesiastical lawyer, Dr See also:Joseph See also:Phillimore, was See also:born at See also:Whitehall on the 5th of See also:November 18'o . Educated at See also:Westminster and See also:Christ See also:Church, See also:Oxford, where a See also:life-See also:long friendship with W . E . See also:Gladstone began, his first See also:appointment was to a clerkship in the See also:board of See also:control, where he remained from 1832 to 1835 . Admitted as an See also:advocate at Doctors' See also:Commons in 1839, he was called to the See also:bar at the See also:Middle See also:Temple in 1841, and See also:rose very rapidly in his profession . He was engaged as counsel in almost every See also:case of importance that came before the See also:admiralty, See also:probate or See also:divorce courts, and became successively See also:master of faculties, See also:commissary of the deans and chapters of St See also:Paul's and Westminster, See also:official of the archdeaconries of See also:Middlesex and See also:London,and See also:chancellor of the dioceses of See also:Chichester and See also:Salisbury . In 1853 he entered See also:parliament as member for See also:Tavistock . A moderate in politics, his energies were devoted to non-party See also:measures, and in 1854 he introduced the See also:bill for allowing viva voce See also:evidence in the ecclesiastical courts . He sat for Tavistock until 1857, when he offered himself as a See also:candidate for See also:Coventry, but was defeated . He was appointed judge of the Cinque Ports in 1855, See also:Queen's Counsel in 1858, and advocate-See also:general in admiralty in 1862, and succeeded Dr See also:Stephen Lushington (1782-1873) as judge of the See also:court of See also:arches five years later . Here his care, See also:patience and See also:courtesy, combined with unusual lucidity of expression, won general respect . In 1875, in accordance with the Public See also:Worship Regulation See also:Act, he resigned, and was succeeded by See also:Lord See also:Penzance .

When the Judicature Act came into force the See also:

powers of the admiralty court were transferred to the High Court of See also:Justice, and See also:Sir See also:Robert Phillimore was therefore the last judge of the historic court of the lord high See also:admiral of See also:England . He continued to sit as judge for the new admiralty, probate and divorce See also:division until 1883, when he resigned . He wrote Ecclesiastical See also:Law of the Church of England, a See also:book which still holds its ground, Commentaries on See also:International Law, and a See also:translation of See also:Lessing's See also:Laocoon . He married, in 1844, See also:Charlotte See also:Anne, daughter of See also:John See also:Denison of See also:Ossington See also:Hall, See also:Newark . He was knighted in '862, and created a See also:baronet in 1881 . He died at Shiplake, near See also:Henley-on-See also:Thames, onthe 4th of See also:February 1885 . His eldest son, Sir See also:Walter G . F . Phillimore (b . 1845), also distinguished as an authority on ecclesiastical and admiralty law, became in 1897 a judge of the high court .

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