George Phipps

St. George, Hanover Square, Out Ward. Lithographed by George Phipps. 1877.
St. George, Hanover Square, Out Ward. Lithographed by George Phipps. From “The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George, Hanover Square. Annual Report”, 1877. © Wellcome Library.

PHIPPS, George (1819-1892) — London

Printer, lithographer and publisher. Produced Surface plan of the mines agreed to be purchased by the Silver Hill Consols Mining Company 1871; several lithographic large-scale maps of the wards of the parish of St. George, Hanover Square, 1877. He published a number of pamphlets of local interest — on taxation, on methods of governance, the Thames Embankment, etc.

Originally from Lower Lemington in Gloucestershire, Phipps was baptised 25 Apr 1819 at Moreton-in-the-the-Marsh, the son of William Phipps and Elizabeth Brandish. Phipps was in a substantial way of business, employing thirty men, three women, and ten boys in 1881. Traded as “Phipps & Connor” 1882-1887. He retired to Sandown in the Isle of Wight with his wife Louisa, where he died 4 Apr 1892. Probate on an estate valued at £20,161.17s.8d. was granted to his widow. The firm continued on into the twentieth century.

1a Upper Ranelagh Street, Pimlico — 1848-1854
25 Upper Ranelagh Street, Pimlico — 1855-1867
13/14 Tothill Street, Westminster — 1859-1881
— and 16 Ebury Street, Westminster — 1868-1887

BBTI. Brown. Census 1841-1851, 1871-1891. COPAC. Todd.

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