PHILLIPS, James (1672-1730), of Carmarthen.

Phillips was the son of ‘a strenuous asserter of the rights and privileges of the inhabitants of the ancient borough of Carmarthen’,Carmarthenshire Mon. Inscriptions, p. v. for which he was returned, apparently as a Tory, at a by-election in 1725. Defeated by a Whig in 1727, he petitioned, but gave up after the House of Commons had rejected a motion declaring that the franchise was in the inhabitants as well as in the freemen.CJ, xxi. 96.

He died 28 Nov. 1730.