Robert Needham Philips

For other people named Robert Philips, see Robert Philips (disambiguation).

Robert Needham Philips DL (1815 – 28 February 1890)[1] was an English merchant and manufacturer in the Lancashire textiles business,[2] a Liberal Party politician, and the grandfather of the Whig historian G. M. Trevelyan.

He lived in Manchester and in Warwickshire,[2] and after holding at least three ceremonial appointments he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the borough of Bury, a mill town which was then in Lancashire, for a total of 22 years between 1857 and 1885.[1]

  1. ^ a b Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 6)
  2. ^ a b Mair, Robert Henry (1867). Debrett's illustrated House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1881. London: Dean & son. p. 187. Retrieved 24 July 2010.