Background
Philipps was the eldest son of Reverend Sir James Erasmus Philipps, 12th Baronet, Vicar of Warminster and Prebendary of Salisbury.
Philipps was the eldest son of Reverend Sir James Erasmus Philipps, 12th Baronet, Vicar of Warminster and Prebendary of Salisbury.
He was educated at the Felsted School and at Keble College, Oxford, where he took a third-class honours degree in modern history in 1882. He studied law at the Middle Temple and was called to the Bar in 1886.
He was the elder brother of Ivor Philipps and Owen Philipps, 1st Baron Kylsant, both also MPs, and of Laurence Philipps, 1st Baron Milford. He sat for Pembrokeshire from 1898-1908. Four years before he succeeded his father in the baronetcy, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Street Davids, of Roch Castle in the County of Pembroke.
In 1918 he was further honoured when he was made Viscount Street Davids, of Lydstep Haven in the County of Pembroke.
Election results.
24th United Kingdom Parliament. 25th United Kingdom Parliament. 26th United Kingdom Parliament.
27th United Kingdom Parliament.
28th United Kingdom Parliament]
Philipps sat as Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Mid Lanarkshire from 1888 to 1895.