John Wynford Philipps, 1st Viscount St Davids (30 May 1860 – 28 March 1938) was a British Liberal politician.
The Viscount St Davids | |
|---|---|
 Philipps in 1905. | |
| Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire | |
| In office 1911–1932 | |
| Member of Parliament for Pembrokeshire | |
| In office 1898–1908 | |
| Member of Parliament for Mid-Lanarkshire | |
| In office 1888–1894 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | John Wynford Philipps 30 May 1860 |
| Died | 28 March 1938 (aged 77) |
Background and education
editPhilipps was the eldest son of Reverend Sir James Erasmus Philipps, 12th Baronet, Vicar of Warminster and Prebendary of Salisbury.[1] He was the elder brother of Ivor Philipps and Owen Philipps, 1st Baron Kylsant, both also MPs, and of Laurence Philipps, 1st Baron Milford. A fifth brother, Bertram, was the last private owner of Philipps House in Wiltshire.
Philipps was educated at Felsted School and at Keble College, Oxford, where he took a third-class honours degree in modern history in 1882. He studied law at the Middle Temple and was called to the Bar in 1886.[2]
Political career
editPhilipps sat as Member of Parliament (MP) for Mid Lanarkshire from 1888 to 1894.
He resigned his seat in 1894, but returned to Parliament sitting for Pembrokeshire from 1898 to 1908. Four years before he succeeded his father in the baronetcy, he was raised to the peerage as Baron St Davids, of Roch Castle in the County of Pembroke. In 1918 he was further honoured when he was made Viscount St Davids, of Lydstep Haven in the County of Pembroke. He was appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in 1922.[3]
Election results
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | John Wynford Philipps | 3,847 | 52.1 | −4.5 | |
| Conservative | William Bousfield | 2,917 | 39.5 | −4.0 | |
| Independent Labour | James Keir Hardie | 617 | 8.4 | N/A | |
| Majority | 930 | 12.6 | −0.4 | ||
| Turnout | 7,381 | 80.7 | +5.9 | ||
| Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | John Wynford Philipps | 4,611 | |||
| Conservative | Robert E.S. Harington-Stuart | 3,489 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | John Wynford Philipps | 5,070 | 59.9 | ||
| Conservative | Hon. Hugh Frederick Vaughan Campbell | 3,400 | 40.1 | ||
| Majority | 1,670 | 19.8 | |||
| Turnout | 8,470 | 76.6 | |||
| Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | John Wynford Philipps | unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
| Liberal hold | Swing | n/a | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | John Wynford Philipps | 5,886 | 69.3 | n/a | |
| Conservative | John Rolleston Lort-Williams | 2,606 | 30.7 | n/a | |
| Majority | 3,280 | 38.6 | n/a | ||
| Turnout | 8,492 | 75.0 | n/a | ||
| Liberal hold | Swing | n/a | |||
Personal life
editLord St Davids was married twice. Firstly, on 14 February 1888 to Leonora Gerstenberg. They had two children:
- Capt. Hon. Colwyn Erasmus Arnold Philipps (11 December 1888 – 13 May 1915)
- Capt. Hon. Roland Erasmus Philipps (27 February 1890 – 7 July 1916)
His first wife, Leonora, died on 30 March 1915. Both their sons died during the First World War and thus predeceased their father and did not inherit his title.[9][10]
Lord St Davids' second marriage was to Elizabeth Frances Abney-Hastings on 27 April 1916. They had two children:
- Jestyn Reginald Austin Plantagenet Philipps, 2nd Viscount St Davids (19 February 1917 – 10 June 1991)
- Hon. Lelgarde De Clare Elizabeth Philipps (23 September 1918 – 1984), who married, in 1950, Colin Charles Evans; they divorced in 1967.[11]
Arms
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References
edit- ^ Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles. Armorial Families, p. 787. Edinburgh: Grange Publishing Works, 1895.
- ^ "Philipps, John Wynford, 1st Viscount St. Davids, 13th Baronet, of Picton Castle," Welsh Biography Online, accessed 28 September 2013.
- ^ Profile, ancestry.com; accessed 13 June 2015.
- ^ Craig
- ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1893
- ^ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
- ^ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
- ^ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
- ^ "Casualty Details: Philipps, The Hon. Colwyn Erasmus Arnold". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
- ^ "Casualty Details: Philipps, The Hon. Roland Erasmus". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
- ^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 3, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 3472
- ^ Debrett's Peerage. 1921.