William Phillimore Watts Phillimore

William Phillimore Watts Phillimore; (formerly Stiff, changed by royal licence 1873) MA BCL (b. Nottingham 27 October 1853, d.Torquay 9 April 1913) was a solicitor, genealogist and publisher.

Contents 1 Genealogy and education 2 Publisher 3 County record offices 4 National record societies 5 USA 6 Publications 7 Edited 8 Other details 9 Sources

Genealogy and education

Phillimore was the eldest son of Dr William Phillimore Phillimore (formerly Stiff) M.B. Lond., M.R.C.S. Eng., of Stenton Nottingham and Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Benjamin Watts of Bridgen Hall Bridgnorth.

He studied at The Queen's College, Oxford being awarded a 2nd in Jurisprudence in 1876.

Phillimore married Jane Graham in 1887 and they left one surviving son, Wilfred Henderson Phillimore.

Publisher

In 1897 he founded the publishing business which bears his name.

County record offices

From 1888 he advocated the formation of Local Record Offices and to achieve that prepared bills to be put before Parliament.

National record societies

Phillimore initiated:

• British Record Society (then The Index Library) 1887
• Scottish Record Series (afterwards Scottish Record Society) 1896
• Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire 1897
• Canterbury and York Society 1904, publishers of English medieval ecclesiastical records
• Irish Record Society 1909

USA

Phillimore was a Corresponding Member of:

• New England Historic Genealogical Society,
• Virginia Historical Society,
• Chicago Historical Society

Publications

• The Phillimore Atlas and Index of Parish Registers
• Nottinghamshire Church Bells 1872
• How to Write the History of a Family 1887
• Pedigree Work 1900
• The Family of Middlemore 1901
• The Family of Holbrow 1901
• Heralds' College and Coats of Arms regarded from a Legal Aspect 1904
• Law and Practice of Grant of Arms 1905
• Changes of Name 1906
• The Family of Phillimore was incomplete at his death - aged 59. It was completed by his kinsman Lord Phillimore, and published in 1922

Edited

• the 1297 Coram Rege Roll
• Rotuli Hugonis de Welles, episcopi Lincolniensis 1209-1235
• Irish Will Calendars
• County Pedigrees: Nottinghamshire
• upwards of 200 volumes of Parish Registers, Inquisitions, Will Calendars (chronological lists of wills) etc.

Other details

• Recreation - Cycling
• Address 124 Chancery Lane WC (London)
• resided in Berkhampstead then Gerrard's Cross

Sources

• Who Was Who 1897-1916; A & C Black Ltd 1920
• The Genealogist, Vol XXX October 1913

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Name	Phillimore, WPW
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Date of birth	27 October 1853
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Date of death	9 April 1913
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