Phillimore, SIR ROBERT JOSEPH

Phillimore, SIR ROBERT JOSEPH, born 5th November 1810, studied at Oxford, and, after serving in the Board of Control, had a brilliant career at the bar. He sat in parliament as a Whig from 1853 to 1857; and held in succession the offices of Advocate-general (1862, when he was knighted), Judge Advocate-general (1871), judge of the Arches Court (1867-75) and of the High Court of Admiralty (1867-83). Made a baronet in 1881, he died 4th February 1885. His most important works are his Commentaries upon International Law (4 vols. 1854-61; 3d ed. 1879), and his Ecclesiastical Law of the Church of England (2 vols. 1873; supp. 1876).