Charles Phillips

(1786 c.-1859)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Phillips, Charles, 1787?-1859 NRA: Phillips Charles (? 1787-1859) Barrister and Miscellaneous Writer DNB: Phillips, Charles (1786/7?-1859), barrister LBT ID: ChPhill1859 VIAF ID: 49248117 LOC ID: n85822269	B/BAP: 1786 DIED: 1859-02-01
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Irish poet and barrister whose flamboyant extempore style provoked, among other notices, two critical articles by Henry Brougham in the Edinburgh Review; they later became political allies.
REFERENCES TO Charles Phillips: Terrot, Charles Hughes, 1790-1872, Common Sense: a Poem (Edinburgh: David Brown, 1819) Found 1: ¶ n1 Scott, John, 1784-1821, “Lord Byron: his French Critics: the Newspapers: and the Magazines” in London Magazine 1 (May 1820) 492-97 Found 1: ¶ 5 Scott, John, 1784-1821, “The Mohock Magazine” in London Magazine 2 (December 1820) 666-85 Found 1: ¶ 29 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1819 Found 1: ¶ 24 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 7: W. H. Pyne Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 4 Ch. 18: Literary Gazette Found 1: ¶ 9 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XVI Found 1: ¶ 3