John Phillips (priest)

For other priests with the name, see John Phillips (disambiguation).

John Leoline Phillips (2 August 1879 – 31 March 1947)[1] was the Dean of Monmouth from 1931[2] until 1946.[3]

Phillips was born in Radyr. He was educated at Christ College, Brecon, and Keble College, Oxford;[4] and ordained in 1909.[5] He was a schoolmaster at St Paul's West Kensington from 1905 until 1921[6] (also serving in the RAOC during World War I) when he became Headmaster of his old school, a post he held until his appointment as Dean. He died in Newport.

  1. ^ Deaths The Times (London, England), Wednesday, 2 April 1947; pg. 1; Issue 50725
  2. ^ Ecclesiastical News The Times (London, England), Wednesday, 4 February 1931; pg. 14; Issue 45738
  3. ^ Ecclesiastical News The Times (London, England), Thursday, 29 August 1946; pg. 6; Issue 50542
  4. ^ PHILLIPS, Very Rev. John Leoline’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 23 March 2015
  5. ^ "Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1929 p1017 London, OUP, 1929
  6. ^ Getty Images