Sir Philip Wodehouse, 1st Baronet

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Sir Philip Wodehouse, 1st Baronet (died 30 October 1623), was an English baronet, soldier and Member of Parliament.

Wodehouse was the son of Sir Roger Woodhouse, of Kimberley, Norfolk, and Mary Corbet, daughter of John Corbet, and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge (1575), and trained in the law at Lincoln's Inn (1580).{{Cite web |title=WOODHOUSE, Philip (d.1623), of Kimberley, Norf. {{!}} History of Parliament Online |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/woodhouse-philip-1623 |access-date=2023-10-23 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org}}

He sat as Member of Parliament for Castle Rising from 1586 to 1587. He was knighted in 1596 for his actions during the capture of Cádiz,Thomas Birch, Memorials of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, vol. 2 (London, 1754), p. 50. and in 1611 he was created a Baronet, of Wilberhall in the County of Norfolk. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace for Norfolk from c. 1591 and High Sheriff of Norfolk for 1594–1595. He was commissioner of musters for 1598 and Custos rotulorum in 1617.

Wodehouse married Grizell Yelverton, daughter of William Yelverton, on 22 December 1582. She was the widow of Thomas Lestrange of Hunstanton, the grandson of Sir Nicholas le Strange.{{Cite book |last=Rye |first=Walter |url=https://archive.org/details/visitacionievisi32ryew/page/272/mode/2up |title=The visitacion [i.e., visitation] of Norfolk, made and taken by William Hervey, Clarencieux King of Arms, anno 1563, enlarged with another visitacion [sic] made by Clarenceux Cook : with many other descents, and also the vissitation [sic] made |last2=Hervey |first2=William |last3=Cooke |first3=Clarenceux |last4=Raven |first4=John |publisher= |others=Family History Library |year= |isbn= |location= |page=272}} Sir Philip died on 30 October 1623 and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son, Thomas. Lady Wodehouse died in August 1635.

He was an ancestor of the British humorist P. G. Wodehouse. A women's jacket in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is thought to have belonged to Grizell Wodehouse.{{cite web |url=https://trc-leiden.nl/trc-needles/individual-textiles-and-textile-types/daily-and-general-garments-and-textiles/wodehouse-jacket |title=Wodehouse Jacket |publisher=Textile Research Centre |access-date=25 November 2023}}