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FX 229
Title
Copy of Earlham Charter
Date(s)
- nd [c 1200] (Creation)
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1 piece
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(1705-1752)
Biographical history
Name of creator
(1792-1872)
Biographical history
Collected over 60,000 manuscripts. Phillipps referred to himself as a complete ‘Vello-maniac’.
Born in Manchester, 2 July 1792. Educated at Rugby School and University College, Oxford. Elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1820 and made a baronet the following year. Lived at Middle Hill, Broadway, then (from 1863) at Thirlestaine House in Cheltenham. Died 6 February 1872. After Phillipps's death, his vast collection of books and manuscripts was dispersed in a series of sales.
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Received by the Norfolk Record Office on 26 April 1990 (MS 34860).
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