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The house itself was bought by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt and used to house his huge book collection, which he transferred from his seat at Middlehill. [3] The house was afterwards inherited by his family. [4] The building is currently owned by Cheltenham College who bought it in 1947 for £31,326. [3]
Thomas Phillipps and Hannah Walton (illegitimate) [1] Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1st Baronet (2 July 1792 – 6 February 1872), was an English antiquary and book collector [ 2 ] who amassed the largest collection of manuscript material in the 19th century.
The Picton Castle estate thus came into the hands of the Philipps family when Sir Henry's daughter Jane married Sir Thomas ap Philipps of Cilsant in the 1490s. [9] Sir John Philipps, who inherited the castle in the 15th century, remodelled the building and created a new entrance which remained until the 1820s when a new entrance was designed by ...
Sir Thomas Phillips (1801 – 26 May 1867) was a Welsh lawyer, ... The eldest son of Thomas Phillips of Llanellen House, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, ...
Thomas Wharton Phillips Jr. (1874–1956), Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania Thomas Williams Phillips (1883–1966), British civil servant Tom Phillips (diplomat) (born 1950), British diplomat
One theory for its construction says that Lady Coventry wondered if a beacon on the hill could be seen from her house. Another is that it served to signal to the Croome Court staff that the earl and his wife were returning from their Spring Hill estate. [6] From 1822 to 1862, the tower housed the private printing press of Sir Thomas Phillipps. [1]
Denis Phillips's house is lit up with holiday lights while his family and friends are gathered around their hot chocolate stand in the Indian Trails subdivision in Palm Harbor, Fla. Phillips's ...
He benefited from the dispersal of a number of collections, including those from the libraries of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Firmin Didot, John Ruskin, and the Earl of Ashburnham. He had a prodigious memory, which aided him in combining long-separated volumes and manuscripts into complete sets.