Molesworth Phillips

(1755-1832)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Phillips, Molesworth, 1755-1832 DNB: Phillips, Molesworth (1755-1832), marine officer LBT ID: MoPhill1832 VIAF ID: 96799668 LOC ID: no2009117413	B/BAP: 1755-08-15 DIED: 1832-09-11
SOURCES: DNB; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
He sailed with Captain Cook as a marine and upon his return married Susanna, sister of Fanny Burney; in later life he was a friend of Robert Southey and Charles Lamb. Hazlitt believed he was a government spy.
REFERENCES TO Molesworth Phillips: Mary Lamb to Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, [2 June 1809] in Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 3 Mary Lamb to Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, 7 November 1809 in Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Found 1: ¶ 3 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XII 1808 Found 2: ¶ 6 ¶ 7 Ch. XVIII Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ n1 Ch. XIX Found 1: ¶ 14 Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877, Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Mary Lamb Found 1: ¶ 9 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1806 Found 1: ¶ 2 Letters: 1809 Found 1: ¶ 1 Letters: 1810 Found 1: ¶ 5 Letters: 1814 Found 1: ¶ 3 Letters: 1830 Found 1: ¶ 1