Laurence Philipps, 1st Baron Milford
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Laurence Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford (24 January 1874 – 7 December 1962), was a British peer. He was a founder and chairman of the shipping company .
Philipps was the sixth son of Reverend , and his wife the Hon. Mary Margaret (née Best). John Philipps, 1st Viscount St Davids, and Owen Philipps, 1st Baron Kylsant, were his elder brothers.
Public life[]
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]
Horse racing[]
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]
Family life[]
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.
Sources[]
- Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,[page needed]
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [self-published source][better source needed]
- "Philipps, Laurence Richard, 1st. Baron Milford and 1st baronet," Welsh Biography Online
References[]
- 1874 births
- 1962 deaths
- Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
- Younger sons of baronets
- High Sheriffs of Hampshire
- English justices of the peace
- Peers created by George VI