Owen Philipps, 1st Baron Kylsant

The Lord Kylsant
Owen Philipps, Baron Kylsant
Lord Kylsant, picture taken in the 1920s
Born
Owen Cosby Philipps

(1863-03-25)25 March 1863
Warminster, Wiltshire
Died5 June 1937(1937-06-05) (aged 74)
Llangynog, Carmarthenshire
Known forBusiness man, politician
TitleBaron Kylsant, of Carmarthen in the County of Carmarthen and of Amroth in the County of Pembroke
Political partyLiberal Member of Parliament (1906–1910)
Conservative Member of Parliament (1916–1922)
Board member ofChairman and Chief Executive of Royal Mail Steam Packet Company
Criminal chargePublishing a document with intent to induce a person to advance property (section 84 Larceny Act 1861)[1]
Criminal penaltyTwelve months' imprisonment[2]
SpouseMai Alice Magdalene Morris (1902–1937)
ChildrenThree daughters
AwardsKCMG (1909)
KStJ (1926)
GCMG (1918)

Owen Cosby Philipps, 1st Baron Kylsant (25 March 1863 – 5 June 1937), known as Sir Owen Philipps between 1909 and 1923, was a British businessman and politician, jailed in 1931 for producing a document with intent to deceive.

  1. ^ R v Kylsant [1932] 1 KB 442
  2. ^ Colin Brooks, ed. (1933). The Royal Mail Case. Notable English Trials. Edinburgh: William Hodge & Co. p. 262.