Godfrey Walter Phillimore, 2nd Baron Phillimore, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 29-Dec-1879
Date of Death: 28-Nov-1947
Profession: writer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Godfrey Walter Phillimore, 2nd Baron Phillimore
- Godfrey Walter Phillimore, 2nd Baron Phillimore, M.C.
- (of Shiplake in the County of Oxford) (b Henley-on-Thames 29 December 1879; d Cape Town 28 November 1947) was an English peer, soldier and author.He was the eldest surviving son of Walter Phillimore, 1st Baron Phillimore and his wife Agnes, daughter of Charles Manners Lushington, M.P.
- He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford and was admitted to the Middle Temple on 1 November 1900.
- He withdrew without being Called to the Bar on 13 January 1928.
- During World War One he served with the Highland Light Infantry.
- He wrote a book about his time in captivity entitled "Recollections of a prisoner of war".
- He married twice, but his eldest son, Anthony Francis, predeceased him, having been killed near Arras, France, 23 May 1940, in World War Two.
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