Sir John Philipps, 6th Baronet, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Sir John Philipps, 6th Baronet

British politician

Date of Birth: 08-Nov-1700

Date of Death: 22-Jun-1764

Profession: politician

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Sir John Philipps, 6th Baronet PC (c.
1701 – 22 June 1764) was a Welsh Jacobite politician. Sir John was the son of Sir John Philipps, 4th Baronet.
He studied at Pembroke College, Oxford, and went on to Lincoln's Inn.
In 1736 he was elected mayor of Haverfordwest and in 1741 he became MP for Carmarthen.
In 1743, his elder brother, Sir Erasmus Philipps, 5th Baronet, was accidentally drowned, and Sir John inherited the baronetcy and Picton Castle.
He gave up the Carmarthenshire seat in 1747, but re-entered Parliament as MP for Petersfield (1754–1761), and Pembrokeshire (1761–1764).
In 1763 he became a privy counsellor.
A patron of education, he founded several scholarships at his former Oxford college.
Proposed by his elder brother, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1742.
In 1725, he had married Elizabeth, the daughter of Henry Shepherd of London, with whom he had a son and 3 daughters.
He was succeeded by the son, Richard, who was created Baron Milford in 1776.

John Faber (1660–1721)
Description	Dutch painter
Date of birth/death	1660	May 1721
Location of birth/death	The Hague	Bristol
Work location	The Hague (1680–1687); London (1687–1718); Oxford (1712–1714)
Authority control	: Q6232619 VIAF: 95782807 ISNI: 0000 0000 8283 6282 ULAN: 500016580 LCCN: no2004019202 Oxford Dict.: 9052 WorldCat