Correspondence of Lieut -Col. f. L. Philips. 13 



Selections from the Correspondence of Lieutenant- 

 Colonel John Leigh Philips, of Mayfield, Man- 

 chester. Part I. By F. J. Faraday, F.L.S. 



{Received f miliary 6th, 1890.) 



John Leigh Philips was born in Manchester on Novem- 

 ber 23, 1 76 1, and died at the age of fifty-three on June 23, 

 1 8 14. He was the eldest son of John Philips, who repre- 

 sented an off-shoot from an old Staffordshire family — the 

 Philips's of Heath House, near Cheadle, in that county, 

 where they were settled as far back as the reign of Edward 

 VI., being lords of the manor of Upper Teyne, Nether Teyne, 

 and Checkley. 



Nathaniel Philips, born in 1698, a younger son of 

 Nathaniel Philips, of Heath House, removed to Manchester 

 and engaged in trade early in the eighteenth century, appa- 

 rently as a silk manufacturer, and he married Elizabeth 

 Burton, of Derby, in 1729. His sons were Nathaniel Philips, 

 born in 1730, and the before-mentioned John Philips, who 

 was born in 1734, and they appear to have carried on their 

 father's business in partnership in Queen Street, St. Ann's 

 Square. John Philips married Sarah, daughter of George 

 Leigh, of Oughtrington Hall, Cheshire. In 1777, when his 

 son, the subject of this notice, was sixteen years of age, he 

 purchased Bank Hall, in the township of Heaton Norris, and 

 resided there until his death, at the advanced age of 90, in 

 1824. Thomas Philips, of Sedgeley (father of Sir George 

 Philips of Sedgeley and Weston, who became a member 

 of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society in 

 1783, and remained a member until his death in 1847), was 

 a cousin of this John Philips, being a younger son of the 

 elder branch of the family which remained in Staffordshire. 

 He was born in 1 728. He, also, came to Manchester, with his 



