Godfrey Walter Phillimore, 2nd Baron Phillimore London Gazette (of Shiplake in the County of Oxford) (Henley-on-Thames, 29 December 1879 – Cape Town, 28 November 1947) was an English peer, soldier and author.Lord Phillimore. The Times (London, England), Friday, 5 December 1947; pg. 7; Issue 50936
He was the eldest surviving son of Walter Phillimore, 1st Baron Phillimore and his wife Agnes, daughter of Charles Manners Lushington, M.P. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford and was admitted to the Middle Temple on 1 November 1900.Sturgess, H.A.C. (1949). Register of Admissions to the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. Butterworth & Co. (Publishers) Ltd.: Temple Bar. Vol. 2, p.724. He withdrew without being Called to the Bar on 13 January 1928. During World War I he served with the Highland Light Infantry. He wrote a book about his time in captivity entitled "Recollections of a prisoner of war". He married twice,‘PHILLIMORE’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 6 Sept 2017 but his eldest son, Anthony Francis, predeceased him, having been killed near Arras, France, 23 May 1940, in World War II.CWGC
During the Spanish Civil War, Phillimore was a strong supporter of General Franco and the fascists, serving as the chairman of the Friends of National Spain committee.
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