Catalogue description Charles Augustus Phillimore 1871-1949

There are letters in the collection from Charles to his father Augustus Phillimore, mostly concerned with life at school and college.

Charles Augustus Phillimore, third son of Augustus and Harriet E Phillimore, was born in 1871 at Dropmore. He was educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford before gaining a place in the Civil Service in 1895. He transferred to the Treasury and became Assistant Private Secretary to Sir Michael Hicks Beachy when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer. In 1903 he became a partner in Coutts Bank.

He married Alice Campion in 1908 and brought up his family of two sons and two daughters at the Manor House, Meonstoke. He died in 1949. One of his sons, Henry Josceline Phillimore (b. 1910) followed a career in law: he was the prosecution lawyer of the Nuremberg trails of Admirals Raeder and Doenitz, and subsequently became a Chief Justice of Appeal. The younger son, Walter Augustus Phillimore, was Captain of a small submarine rammed and sunk by a Canadian destroyer in 1942 following a failure of signals.