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Baron Phillimore

{{short description|Barony in the Peerage of the United Kingdom}}

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Baron Phillimore, of Shiplake in the County of Oxford, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.{{London Gazette |issue=30781 |date=5 July 1918 |page=7940}} It was created in 1918 for the former Judge of the High Court of Justice and Lord Justice of Appeal, Sir Walter Phillimore, 2nd Baronet. The Phillimore Baronetcy, of The Coppice, had been created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 28 December 1881{{London Gazette |issue=25049 |date=16 December 1881 |page=6707}} for his father Sir Robert Phillimore, who was also a noted lawyer and judge. The first Baron was succeeded by his son, the second Baron.

On his death the titles passed to his grandson, the third Baron, his eldest son Captain the Hon. Anthony Francis Phillimore (d. 1940) having been killed in action during the Second World War. The third Baron was childless and was succeeded by his uncle, the fourth Baron. He was an architect.

{{As of|2025}} the titles are held by his grandson, the sixth Baron, who succeeded in 2025.

Phillimore Estate

The Phillimore family were formerly owners, and now trustees, of the Phillimore Estate {{cite web| url = http://www.phillimore-kensington-estate.co.uk/| title = Homepage - The Phillimore Estate}} in Kensington, west London, covering the prosperous 19th century houses around Holland Park and Campden Hill.Evening Standard: 'Keeping it in the family' {{cite web |url=http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/home/article-912768-keeping-it-in-the-family.do |title=Keeping it in the family| Entertainment | This is London |access-date=2012-02-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100215173807/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/home/article-912768-keeping-it-in-the-family.do |archive-date=15 February 2010 }}

The family also controls Coppid Farming Enterprises, a landowner with an interest in the Crichel Down estate.{{cite web |last1=Shrubsole |first1=Guy |title=The ten landowners who own one-sixth of Dorset. |url=https://whoownsengland.org/2020/01/04/the-ten-landowners-who-own-one-sixth-of-dorset/ |website=Who Owns England?|date=4 January 2020 }}

The fourth Baron owned Villa Foscari, a masterpiece of Palladio and now a Unesco World Heritage site.

Phillimore Baronets, of The Coppice (1881)

Barons Phillimore (1918)

File:The Hon. Tristan Phillimore playing for The Royal Salute Eve Branson Commonwealth team. Credit Keoma Yac 2 (16677207203).jpg

The heir presumptive is the present holder's brother, the Hon. Julian Michel Claud Phillimore (born 1981)

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|image = File:Coronet of a British Baron.svgFile:Phillimore Escutcheon.png

|escutcheon = Sable three bars indented Erminois in chief an anchor between two cinqeufoils Or.

|crest = In front of a tower Argent thereon a falcon volant Proper holding in the beak a lure Gold three cinqeufoils fesswise Or.

|supporters = On either side an owl Proper each charged with an anchor Or.

|motto = Fortem Posce Animum (Pray For A Brave Soul) {{cite book|title=Debrett's Peerage |date=1973}}}}

References

  • {{cite book |last=Hesilrige |first=Arthur G. M. |date=1921| title=Debrett's Peerage and Titles of courtesy| url=https://archive.org/details/debrettspeeraget00unse/page/718 | location=London |publisher=London: Dean & son, limited|page=718}}
  • Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.{{Page needed |date=November 2021}}
  • {{Rayment|date=February 2012}}

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{{Extant Barons of the United Kingdom}}

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Category:Baronies in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Category:1918 establishments in the United Kingdom

Category:Nobility from Oxfordshire

Category:Noble titles created in 1918

Category:People from Shiplake