Godfrey Walter Phillimore, 2nd Baron Phillimore

Godfrey Walter Phillimore, 2nd Baron Phillimore, M.C.[1] (of Shiplake in the County of Oxford) (b Henley-on-Thames 29 December 1879; d Cape Town 28 November 1947) was an English peer, soldier and author.[2]

He was the eldest surviving son of Walter Phillimore, 1st Baron Phillimore and his wife Agnes, daughter of Charles Manners Lushington, M.P. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford. During World War One he served with the Highland Light Infantry. He wrote a book about his time in captivity entitled "Recollections of a prisoner of war". He married twice,[3] but his eldest son was killed in World War Two.[4]

Notes

  1. ↑ London Gazette
  2. ↑ Lord Phillimore. The Times (London, England), Friday, Dec 05, 1947; pg. 7; Issue 50936
  3. ↑ ‘PHILLIMORE’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 6 Sept 2017
  4. ↑ CWGC
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