Laurence Philipps, 1st Baron Milford

In Hampshire in 1910 he became a Justice of the Peace and for 1915 was High Sheriff. In 1918 he became a Justice of the Peace for Radnorshire.[1] Philipps was Governor of the University College of Wales and Founder of the Paraplegic Hospital in Wales.

He was created a Baronet, of Llanstephan in the County of Radnor, in 1919 and in 1939 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Milford, of Llanstephan in the County of Radnor. The barony was a revival of the two extinct baronies of Milford, created in 1776 and in 1847, held by earlier members of the Philipps family.

In 1919 he offered a prize of £1,000 for the British airman to fly the Atlantic, this was awarded to John Alcock following his Transatlatic Flight.[2]

As a racehorse owner and stud owner, Philipps was a member of the Jockey Club, he also founded Tote Investors which was later acquired by the Horse Race Totalisator Board and then nationalised in 1939 as The Tote.[1]

Lord Milford married Ethel Georgina, daughter of Reverend Benjamin Speke, in 1901.[1] He died in December 1962, aged 88, and was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son Wogan.[1] Lady Milford died in 1971.

• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
• "Philipps, Laurence Richard, 1st. Baron Milford and 1st baronet," Welsh Biography Online