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 Ecclesiastical Courts he decided a large number of important cases, including those of Martin v, Mackonochie, Sheppard v. Betinett, and Elphinstone v. Purchas. He died 4 Feb. 1885. He -was an eminent scholar and a prolific author, his Commentaries on Ecclesiastical and International Law being standard treatises.

Admitted 6 April, 1804.

Second son of Thomas March Phillipps of Garendon Park, Leicester. He was born at Uttoxeter 14 July, 1780. His original name was March, the "Phillipps" being assumed by his father on suceeeding [sic] to the Garendon estate. He was educated at Charterhouse and Cambridge, where he was Eighth "Wrangler and Chancellor's Medallist in 1802. In 1827 he occupied the office of tinder-Secretary of State for the Home Department, which he held till 1848, when he retired, and was made a Privy Councillor. He died 11 March, 1862.

He was the author of a work on The Law of Evidence, published in 1814, and in 1826 he published a Collection of Interesting State Trials prior to 1688.

Admitted 30 October, 1807.

Eldest son of William Phillips of Sligo. He graduated at Dublin the year previous to his admission to the Inn, and was called to the Irish Bar in 1812. During his residence in the Temple he devoted himself more to literature than to law. Nevertheless he acquired a great reputation as an advocate in criminal cases, and after his call to the English Bar, 9 Feb. 1821, became leader at the Old Bailey, where he was commonly known, from his florid style of oratory, as "Counsellor O'Garnish." He defended Courvoisier for the murder of Lord William RusselL He died in London 1 Feb. 1859.

He left behind him the following writings: The Consolations of Erin, a Poem (1811); The Loves of Celestine and St. Aubert, a Romantic Tale (1811); The Emerald Isle, a Poem (1812); A Speech, in Guthrie v. Sterne (1815); Several Letters in Defence of the above (1817); Various Speeches (1816); Garland for the Grave of R.B. Sheridan (1816); Historical Character of Napoleon (1817); The Lament of the Emerald Isle [for the Princess Charlotte] (1817); Speeches at the Bar (1817); Address to the Electors of Sligo (1818); Recollections of J.P. Curran (1818); Specimens of Irish Eloquence, with Biographical Notices of Burke, Curran, and others (1819); The Queen's Case stated in an Address to the King (1820); Historical Sketch of Arthur, Duke of Wellington (1852); Napoleon the Third (1852); Vacation Thoughts on Capital Punishment (1857). He is also said to have composed the Defence of Thurtell, read by the latter at his trial.

Admitted 23 October, 1847.

Eldest son of Aldcroft Phillips of Manchester, where he was born in 1829. He was called to the Bar 8 Nov. 1850. He became puisne judge in Natal in 1858, acting chief justice of Barbadoes in 1877, and in the same year temporary judge of the Supreme Court of the Straits Settlement. After a further residence in Natal in 1878 as senior puisne judge, he became legal adviser to