SAMUEL

See also:

• PHILLIPS
• PHILLIPS, ADELAIDE (1833-1882)
• PHILLIPS, EDWARD (163o-1696)
• PHILLIPS, JOHN (1800—1874)
• SAMUEL PHILLIPS (1814—1854)
• PHILLIPS, STEPHEN (1868– )
• PHILLIPS, THOMAS (1770-1845)
• PHILLIPS, WENDELL (1811-1884)

PHILLIPS (1814—1854)  , English journalist, the son of a Jewish tradesman in London, was born on the 28th of December 1814 . He was educated at University College, London, and then at Gottingen . Having renounced the Jewish faith, he returned to England and entered Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, with the design of taking orders . His father's death, however, prevented this, and in 1841 he took to literary work . He wrote a novel, Caleb Stukely (1862), and other tales, and about 1845 began a connexion with The Times as literary critic . In the following year he purchased the John Bull newspaper, and edited it for a year . Two volumes of his Essays from The Times appeared in 1852 and 1854 . Phillips took an active part in the formation of the Crystal Palace Company, and wrote their descriptive guides . In 1852 the university of Gottingen conferred upon him the honorary degree of LL.D . He died at Brighton on the 14th of October 1854 .