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PHILLIPS, SAMUEL (1814—1854)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 407 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PHILLIPS, See also:SAMUEL (1814—1854) , See also:English journalist, the son of a Jewish tradesman in See also:London, was See also:born on the 28th of See also:December 1814. He was educated at University See also:College, London, and then at See also:Gottingen. Having renounced the Jewish faith, he returned to See also:England and entered See also:Sidney See also:Sussex College, See also:Cambridge, with the See also:design of taking orders. His See also:father's See also:death, however, prevented this, and in 1841 he took to See also:literary See also:work. He wrote a novel, See also:Caleb Stukely (1862), and other tales, and about 1845 began a connexion with The Times as literary critic. In the following See also:year he See also:purchased the See also:John See also:Bull newspaper, and edited it for a year. Two volumes of his Essays from The Times appeared in 1852 and 1854. Phillips took an active See also:part in the formation of the Crystal See also:Palace See also:Company, and wrote their descriptive guides. In 1852 the university of Gottingen conferred upon him the honorary degree of LL.D. He died at See also:Brighton on the 14th of See also:October 1854.

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