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Robert Needham Philips DL (1815 – 28 February 1890) was an English merchant and manufacturer in the Lancashire textiles business, a Liberal Party politician, and the grandfather of the Whig historian G. M. Trevelyan. He lived in Manchester and in Warwickshire,〔 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.〔 == Family and early life == Philips was the youngest son Robert Philips, a merchant of The Park, Manchester, and his wife Anne ''née'' Needham.〔 His older brother Mark〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Philips Park Restoration Project )〕 (1800–1873) was one of the first two MPs to be elected for Manchester in 1832, after the Great Reform Act had given city parliamentary representation for the first time.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Mark Philips )〕 The family's extensive estate on the boundary of Whitefield and Prestwich, in Greater Manchester (now within the Metropolitan Borough of Bury), is now Philips Park.〔 His father's business partnership, ''Philips, Wood & Co'', was dissolved in 1844 after the death of both partners. The younger Robert was educated at Rugby School and at Manchester College.〔〔Several different institutions have borne the name Manchester College, or a variation thereof. It is unclear which of them is referred to by the entry in Debretts.〕 He married twice, firstly in 1845 to Anna Maria Yates from Liverpool, who died in 1851.〔 He married again in 1856 to Mary Ellen Yates from London.〔 His daughter Caroline was married in 1869 to George Otto Trevelyan (1838–1928), who was later a baronet; their youngest son was the historian G. M. Trevelyan (1876–1962), and their eldest son was the Liberal MP Sir Charles Trevelyan (1870–1958), who later joined the Labour Party and served in Ramsay Macdonald's cabinets as President of the Board of Education. His residences were listed in 1881 as ''The Park, Manchester'', and ''Welcombe, Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire''.〔 He had inherited Welcombe House in 1873 on the death of his brother, and on his death the estate passed to his daughter Caroline. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Needham Philips」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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