Phillips, James, D.D., an eminent Presbyterian divine, was born at Newendon, Essex < lounty, England, April 22, 1792. His father was a minister of the Estab- lished Church of England, and attached to the Evan- gelical party in that Church. His early education was acquired mostly while he was engaged in private studj and teaching in the service of the English navy. His tastes and habits Beem to have been fixed early, and to
the impressions which he there received. and the scenes
he witnessed al the great military and naval stations, may be traced many of his later habits and interests. lb- came in America in 1818, and engaged in the busi- ness nl teaching al Harlem. X. V.. where he soon had a flourishing school. There were at that time in New
Fork and the neighbor] I a iber of American and
Uriiish mathematicians who had organized a mathe- matical club, Of Which he beci ■ a member. Ti. the
mathi rnaticaJ journals published at that time he was a regular contributor, oral leas) to two of them the .)/,,//,- ematicul Repository and Wash's Diary. In 1826 he was 'in- vacant mathematical chair in the Univer- sity ol North Carolina, and entered upon the duties of his professorship in .Inly of the same year. In this posi- tion he continued to labor for forty-one years, devoting hims, ii With unremitting care and attention to his du-
ties. The amount of work he went through with is amazing. He projected a complete course of mathe- matical works, and published in 1828 a work on ionic sections, which was afterwards adopted as a text-book in Columbia College, New York. He prepared also trea- tises on algebra, geometry, trigoni try, differential and
integral calculus, and natural philosophy, besides mak- ing for his own use translations of many of the French mathematicians— which works, however, he never made any attempt to publish. He also joined the other mem- bers of the faculty in contributing his quota to the Harbinger, a new-paper published at chapel Hill, in 1832, under the direction of Dr. Caldwell. Up to the time of his coming to North Carolina, and for many years after, he seems to have devoted himself exclu- sively to scientific studies. Although he had been lor years a consistent member of the Church, yet now he began to experience a change, winch he regarded as the true beginning of his Christian life. Henceforth he ceased to he the mere teacher of science; he added to his other duties the diligent study of theology and un- wearied activity in all Christian duties, and in Septem- ber, 1833, was licensed by the Presbytery of < (range, at New Hope, and in April, 1835, was ordained to the fall work of the ministry. He was never installed as pastor, but he preached as a supply for sometime at. Pittsboro', and afterwards, tor the greater part of his ministerial life, at New Hope Church. He was in the full discharge of his professional duties when he died suddenly Man b 14,1867. Dr. I'hillips was a man of remarkable literary, theological, and professional attainments. He was an inexorable mathematician, but well and thoroughly read in all departments. Many books in his library had this simple comment. "Perlegi." His chief religious reading was among the old Nonconformist divines; his favorite authors were the old English classics; the book that was oftenest in his hand was the Bible, lb' was a great preacher; his sermons wen' complete structures; there was nothing oratorical about him -it was the pure "weight of metal." Asa man he was uncompromising- ly conscientious, remarkably modest, free from all arro- gance and presumption, and yet most genial as a com- panion and friend. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. Almanac, 1868, p. 349. (J.L.S.)
Phillips, John, LI..D.. an American philanthropist of some noie. was born in Andover, Mass., D< •<•. '-'7. 1719; was educated at Harvard College (class of 1735); and having preached for some time, al length engaged in mercantile pursuits, and was for several years a numb, r of the ( ouucil of New Hampshire. In 177S he and his brother. Samuel I'hillips. of Andover. founded and liber- ally endowed the academy in that town, which was in- corporated in 1780. In 1789 he further gave to this institution $20,000. The academy called I'hillips 1.x- eter Academy, of which he was the sole founder, was incorporated in 1781, with a fund which was eventually increased to $134,000. He endowed a professorship in Dartmouth College, and he contributed liberally to Princeton College. He died in April, 17:i."p. bequeath- ing to his academy two thirds of all his estate, and one third of the residue to the seminary at Andover. par- ticularly for the benefit of pious youth.
Phillips, Morgan, Bometimes called PMBipMor- gan, a Roman Catholic divine, was horn probably during the latter part of the loth century. He received his education al Oxford, graduating in the class of 1537. He was made principal of St. Mary's Hall in 1546, and was one of the founders of the English College al Douay, where hedied in 1570. His powers as a disputant were so greal that he was called ■• Morgan the Sophister," and
hi' was one of the three selected to dispute wilh 1'iier
Martyr on the Eucharist, and published on that occasion Disputatio du Sacramento Eucharistia in Univ. Oxon, kabita contra /'. Peter Martyr, L8 Mai, 1549. He also published I Treatist showing tht Regiment of Women is conformable to tin Lava of God and Natun (Liege, 1671)