Philip Metcalfe

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Philip Metcalfe (29 August 173310 August 1818) was a distiller in London, UK and member of Parliament from Horsham from 1784. He represented Plympton Erle, Devon from 1790 to 1796 and Malmesbury Wiltshire from 1796.

He was also a collector and a patron of the arts, and a friend of Samuel Johnson. He sat for two portraits that are archived in the National Portrait Gallery: one by Pompeo Batoni and one by William Evans (after Edward Scott).

He served as an executor of the estate of painter Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792), along with Edmund Burke and Edmond Malone.

Between 1815 and 1817 he erected a new mill, the Clock Mill at Three Mills.

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Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by
Sir George Osborn, Bt
James Crauford
Member of Parliament for Horsham
with Jeremiah Crutchley

17841790
Succeeded by
Timothy Shelley
Wilson Braddyll
Preceded by
John Stephenson
John Pardoe
Member of Parliament for Plympton Erle
with The Earl of Carhampton 1790–1794
William Manning 1794–1796

17901796
Succeeded by
William Adams
William Mitchell
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Samuel Smith
Peter Isaac Thellusson
Member of Parliament for Malmesbury
with Peter Isaac Thellusson

17961802
Succeeded by
Claude Scott
Samuel Scott