Family and Education
b. 1613, 1st s. of Sir Robert Phelipps† of Montacute and Bridget, da. of Sir Thomas Gorges of Longford Castle, Wilts.Vis. Som. 1623 (Harl. Soc. xi), 85. educ. Wadham Oxf. 30 Oct. 1629.Al. Ox. m. Feb. 1632, Anne, da. of Sir Robert Pye I* of Faringdon, Berks., 6s. 1da.Hutchins, Dorset, iii. 357; Cal. Corresp. Smyth Fam. 113-14. suc. fa. 1638. d. 5 Feb. 1680.Al Ox.
Offices Held

Local: j.p. Som. 1638 – 46, by Oct. 1660–d.CSP Dom. 1661–2, pp. 434, 443, 455; HP Commons, 1660–1690. Commr. subsidy, 1641;SR. sewers, 13 July 1641, 11 Aug. 1660, 6 July 1670;C181/5, f. 205; C181/7, pp. 24, 556. contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642.SR. Member, co. cttee. (roy.) July 1643–5.Underdown, Somerset, 70. Commr. assessment, 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679;An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. oyer and terminer, Western circ. 10 July 1660-aft. Feb. 1673.C181/7, pp. 10, 636. Dep. lt. July 1660–d.HP Commons, 1660–1690. Commr. poll tax, 1660;SR. corporations, 1662;G. D. Stawell, A Quantock Family: the Stawells of Cothelstone (Taunton, 1910), 411. loyal and indigent officers, 1662; subsidy, 1663;SR. recusants, 1675.CTB iv. 697.

Military: col. of horse (roy.), c.1643–5. Gov. Ilchester c.1643–5.D. Underdown, Som. in the Civil War and Interregnum (Newton Abbot, 1973), 69.

Court: gent. of privy chamber, extraordinary, 14 Aug. 1660–d.Som. RO, DD/PH/224, f. 192.

Central: commr. dedimus potestatem, Parl. 31 Oct. 1666.C181/7, p. 378.

: of Montacute, Som.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, J. Huysmans, 1663.NT, Montacute House.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

PHELIPPS, Edward (1613-80), of Montacute, Som.

Will
16 Jan. 1680, pr. 28 June 1680.PROB11/363/278.
Estates
in 1640 held lands in Montacute, Odcombe, Sock Dennis and Yeovil, Som. worth £493 p.a., and reversionary interest in jointure lands of his mo. at Montacute, worth £300 p.a.SP23/181, pp. 307-8.
Oxford 1644
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