Vivian Phillipps

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Henry Vivian Phillipps JP (born April 13, 1870 in Beckenham , Kent (now London ), † January 16, 1955 ) was a Scottish politician.

Life

Phillipps was born in 1870 as the eldest son of Henry Mitchell and his wife Louise . He attended the Charterhouse School and received further training in Heidelberg . In 1890 he enrolled at Gonville and Caius College of Cambridge University and obtained three years later a bachelor's degree . Phillipps then went to Fettes College , where he taught new languages ​​until 1905 and was a choirmaster. In 1908 he was admitted to the bar and was admitted to the Lincoln's Inn . In 1915, Phillipps was installed as Justice of the Peace for Kent . Between 1933 and 1938 he was also chairman of Quarter Sessions of West Kent .

Political career

For the first time Phillipps appeared in the general election in 1906 for elections at the national level. In the constituency of Blackpool , however, the Liberal Phillipps could not prevail against his Conservative opponent Wilfrid Ashley . Also in the general election in January and December 1910 , he could not prevail in the constituency of Maidstone against the conservative Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry . Between 1912 and 1916 Phillipps was the private secretary of Scotland Minister Thomas McKinnon Wood and between 1917 and 1922 of the former Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith .

In the general election in 1922 Phillipps applied for the seat of the constituency of Edinburgh West . Here he stood as the successor of his party colleague Edward Parrott against the unionist John Gordon Jameson , who held the mandate since 1918. Phillipps received 51.4% of the vote and subsequently moved into the British House of Commons for the first time . Despite losing votes, he held his mandate against the unionist Ian Macintyre and the Labor candidate George Mathers in the 1923 general election . During the electoral term he held the function of Whip of the Liberal Group in Parliament . After Phillipps lost 11% of his votes in the subsequent general election in 1924 and fell behind both Macintyre and Mathers, he left parliament. Phillipps ran for the last time in the 1929 general election . This time too, he clearly missed the majority of the vote.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Phillipps, Henry Vivian . In: John Archibald Venn (Ed.): Alumni Cantabrigienses . A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. Part 2: From 1752 to 1900 , Volume 5 : Pace – Spyers . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1953, pp. 108 ( venn.lib.cam.ac.uk Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ Henry Phillipps in Hansard (English)
  3. ^ Fred WS Craig: British parliamentary election results, 1918-1949 . Political Reference Publications, Glasgow 1974, ISBN 0-900178-01-9 , pp. 311 .
  4. ^ Fred WS Craig: British parliamentary election results, 1918-1949 . Political Reference Publications, Glasgow 1974, ISBN 0-900178-01-9 , pp. 147 .
  5. ^ Liberal Year Book. 1926, p. 270.
  6. ^ The Constitutional Yearbook. 1925, p. 258.
  7. ^ Liberal Year Book. 1932, p. 212.
  8. ^ Liberal Year Book. 1936, p. 204.
personal data
SURNAME Phillipps, Vivian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Phillipps, Henry Vivian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Beckenham , Kent
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1955