Background
PHILIPPS, Owen was born on March 25, 1863. 3rd son of the Reverend Canon Sir Jesus Erasmus Philipps, 12th Baronet, and Honourable Lady Philipps, sister of 5th Baron Wynford.
PHILIPPS, Owen was born on March 25, 1863. 3rd son of the Reverend Canon Sir Jesus Erasmus Philipps, 12th Baronet, and Honourable Lady Philipps, sister of 5th Baron Wynford.
Studied at Newton College, South Devon Contested Liberal Montgomery Boroughs, 1895. Darlington, 1898.
High Sheriff, Pembrokeshire, 1904. Chairman of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. Chairman of British and African Steam Navigation Company, and Chairman Elder, Dempster, and Company, Ltd.
Member of Royal Commission on Shipping Rings, 1906-1909. Member of Executive Committee of King Edward’s Hospital Lund since 1908. Chairman of Departmental Committee on Distressed Indian and Colonial Subjects, 1909.
And ViceChairman of the Port of London Authority. Vice - President of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Trustee of Royal Alfred Aged Merchant Seamen’s Institution. Member of Parliament (Liberal) Pembroke and Haverfordwest District since 1900; Justice of the Peace Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, Haverfordwest, and Glasgow.
Liberal.
Clubs : Wellington, Reform, Ranelagli, Royal Cruising. T. : 238 Kensington.
Spouse 1902, Mai, co-heiress of late Thos. Morris, D.L., of Coomb, Carmarthenshire, threedaughter.
Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George, cartulary-register 1909. Sir.