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 was formed. In 1839 the Count de Montalembert went to Gracedieu to make the acquaintance, as he said, ‘of a kindred spirit,’ and the two friends visited the ruins of all the Cistercian abbeys founded in England during the time of St. Bernard. In 1857 the ‘Association for the Promotion of the Unity of Christendom’ was established, Phillipps being one of its principal founders, though he promptly withdrew from it when it was condemned at Rome in 1864. On the death of his father in 1862 he inherited the family estates, and assumed the name of De Lisle. In 1868 he was high sheriff of Leicestershire. He died at Garendon on 5 March 1878, and was buried in the church of St. Bernard's monastery. He married in 1833 Laura Mary, eldest daughter of the Hon. Thomas Clifford, fourth son of Hugh, fourth lord Clifford of Chudleigh, by whom he had sixteen children, eleven of whom survived him.

Among his works are: 1. ‘The Lamentations of England,’ London, 1831, 8vo, translated from the Italian of Father Dominic, Passionist. 2. ‘A Vindication of Catholic Morality, or a Refutation of the Charges brought against it by Sismondi in his “History of the Italian Republics in the Middle Ages,”’ London, 1836, 8vo, translated from the Italian of Count Alexander Manzoni. 3. ‘The History of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, Duchess of Thuringia’ (1207–31), London, 1839, 8vo, 1840, 4to, translated from the French of de Montalembert. 4. ‘Remarks on a Letter addressed to the Rev. R. W. Jelf, D.D., in explanation of No. 90 in the series called the “Tracts for the Times,”’ London, 1841, 8vo. 5. ‘Appeal … in behalf of the Abbey Church of St. Bernard, Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire,’ London, 1842, 8vo. 6. ‘The Catholic Christian's Complete Manual,’ a collection of prayers and offices, London, 1847, 12mo. 7. ‘Letter to the Earl of Shrewsbury on the Re-establishment of the Hierarchy … and the present posture of Catholic Affairs in Great Britain,’ London, 1850, 8vo. 8. ‘A Few Words on Lord John Russell's Letter to the Bishop of Durham,’ London, 1850, 8vo. 9. ‘Mahometanism in its relation to Prophecy; or an Inquiry into the Prophecies concerning Antichrist, with some reference to their bearing on the events of the present day,’ London, 1855, 12mo. 10. ‘On the Future Unity of Christendom,’ London, 1857, 8vo. 11. A large number of inedited letters by him, relating principally to the reunion of Christendom, are in the possession of his friend and former chaplain, the Rev. Frederick George Lee, D.D., vicar of All Saints, Lambeth. Other letters by him are printed in the ‘Life of the Blessed Paul of the Cross,’ 1853, and in the ‘Life of Fr. Ignatius of St. Paul’ (the Hon. and Rev. George Spencer), 1866.

His eighth and youngest son, (1853–1885), born at Gracedieu 23 Nov. 1853, entered the training-ship Britannia 2 May 1867, and, after serving as a midshipman and sub-lieutenant in cruises to all parts of the world, arrived at Alexandria in her majesty's ship Alexandra in February 1884. In August following he was appointed to the naval brigade attached to the Upper Nile expedition sent to relieve Gordon at Khartoum. His last letter, dated 13 Jan. 1885, describes his arrival at Gakdul, desert of Bayuda. Four days later he was killed at the battle of Abu Klea, and buried on the battle-field. His devotion to the catholic faith and his unselfish manliness made his character remarkable. His letters, without showing much literary merit, contain good descriptions of the war between Chili and Peru in 1880, and of the burning of Lima, together with other interesting events which he witnessed on his cruises. A full memoir by the Rev. H. N. Oxenham was published in 1886.

[A Short Sketch of his Life prefixed to Two Sermons preached at his funeral (privately printed), 1878, 8vo; Tablet, 16 March 1878, p. 238; Gillow's Bibl. Dict.] 

DELL, HENRY (fl. 1756), was an obscure bookseller, first in Tower Street, and afterwards in Holborn, where he died in great poverty. Besides dealing in books he seems to have tried, with equal ill-success, the career of an actor and author. In the former capacity he appeared as Mrs. Termagant at Covent Garden Theatre, and in the latter he produced or adapted four plays: 1. ‘The Spouter, or the Double Revenge,’ a comic farce in three acts, 8vo, 1756. 2. ‘Minorca,’ a tragedy, 8vo, 1756; founded on the capture of that island by the French in June of the same year; never acted, but which reached a second edition in the same year, in which the author in an advertisement speaks of ‘what obscure hackney writers have been pleased to say concerning a few mistakes.’ 3. ‘The Mirror,’ a comedy, 8vo, 1757; an adaptation of Randolph's ‘Muses' Looking Glass;’ never acted. 4. ‘The Frenchified Lady never in Paris,’ 8vo, 1757, and 12mo, 1761; an adaptation of Cibber's ‘Comical Lovers,’ made for Mrs. Woffington, at whose benefit it was acted at Covent Garden, 23 March 1756. Besides these plays Dell is said to have been the author of a poem, of which he was certainly the publisher, called ‘The Bookseller,’ 1766, which, according to Nichols, was ‘a wretched rhyming list