Philip Courtenay

(1786 c.-1842)

LBT ID: PhCourt1842	B/BAP: 1786 DIED: 1842-12-10
SOURCES: Gentleman's Magazine (February 1842) 220); Charles Sumner, Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner (1877) 2:41-42
Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, he was called to the Bar in 1808 and was King's Counsel (1833) and MP for Bridgenorth (1837-41). He was a wit an epicure.
REFERENCES TO Philip Courtenay: 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 XXIV Found 1: ¶ 8 Chapter XXVI Found 1: ¶ 5 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter IV. 1838-41. Found 1: ¶ 15