Background
WILSON, Philip Whitwell was born in 1875. Son of I. Whitwell Wilson, Justice of the Peace of County of Westmoreland, and Annie, daughter of Jonathan Bagster, Bible publisher.
WILSON, Philip Whitwell was born in 1875. Son of I. Whitwell Wilson, Justice of the Peace of County of Westmoreland, and Annie, daughter of Jonathan Bagster, Bible publisher.
Studied at Kendal Grammar School. Clare College Cambridge.
President of the Cambridge Union Society. Editor of the Granta, Public School Magazine, 1897-1899. Editor Railway Herald, 1899-1901. Member of Parliament (Liberal) South St. Pancras, 1906-1910. Parliamentary Correspondent, Daily News.
An Unofficial Statesman (Life of Robert C. Ogden), 1924. An Explorer of Changing Horizons (biographical of William Edgar Geil), 1927. Life of Evangeline Booth, 1938. Newtopia, 1941. Bride’s Castle, 1944. Black Tarn, 1945. Old Mill, 1946. Editor: William Pitt, the Younger, 1929. Is Christ Possible?, 1932. The Romance of the Calendar, 1937.
Liberal.
Club: National Liberal.
Spouse 1899, Alice S., o.daughter of Henry Collins, Pawtucket, R.I., U.S.A.