Background
The second son of Thomas March of More Crichel in Dorset, he was born at Uttoxeter on 14 July 1780. His father assumed the additional surname of Phillipps on succeeding in 1796 to the estate of Garendon Park in Leicestershire, under the will of his cousin Samuel Phillipps. His mother was Susan, fourteenth daughter of Charles Lisle of Crux-Easton, Hampshire.
Charles March-Phillipps was his elder brother.
