PHILLIPPS, Ambrose (?1707-37), of Garendon Park, Leics.

Phillipps’s grandfather, Sir Ambrose Phillipps, an eminent lawyer, purchased Garendon in 1683 for £28,000. His own father, a Turkey merchant as well as a country gentleman, who further increased the family fortune,Nichols, Leics. iii. 802-4. was included in a list of leading Jacobites sent to the Pretender in 1721.Stuart mss 65/16. After leaving the university, Phillipps travelled extensively in France and Italy, where he acquired a taste for and knowledge of architecture, which he applied in designing the gardens and extensions of the house at Garendon.Nichols, 802. Returned as a Tory for Leicestershire at a by-election in 1734, he voted against the Government on the repeal of the Septennial Act. He died 6 Nov. 1737, aged 30.