Clive Phillipps-Wolley

Sir Clive Phillipps-Wolley (born Edward Clive Oldnall Long Phillipps, 3 April 1853 – 8 July 1918) was a British-Canadian official, author and big game hunter. His two most famous poems are perhaps The Sea Queen Wakes and Coronation Hymn composed in honour of the coronation of George V.

In 1882, he went on a two-month hunting trip in British Columbia and in the autumn of 1887 he went, accompanied by his wife, on another visit to Canada and they stayed for a considerable time in Victoria, British Columbia.

In the early 1890s, Clive and Jane Phillipps-Wolley, with their three daughters and son, settled in Oak Bay, British Columbia. He edited for Longman, Green & Company's Badminton Library the 2-volume collection Big Game Shooting (1894) and contributed 2 essays to the first volume and 4 essays to the second volume; a second edition of the 2 volumes was published in 1895.

In 1896, Phillipps-Wolley was appointed to enforce the Health Act in the mining districts of British Columbia. In the early 1900s, the family moved into an estate occupying all of Piers Island, sold in 1909. In 1912, the family moved to "The Grange", a mansion located near Duncan, British Columbia and designed according to their requirements by the architect Samuel Maclure.

In 1908, Phillipps-Wolley began to warn of the dangers posed by an expanding German navy and in 1910 joined the Navy League of Canada. For his patriotic verse in support of the British empire and his work for the Navy League, he was knighted in 1914, the only British Columbian writer to be knighted.

Personal life In 1879, married Jane Fenwick, the second daughter of Rear-Admiral William Henry Fenwick (1827–1906). When in Oak Bay, British Columbia, he commissioned architect William Ridgway Wilson (1863–1957) to design and build a mansion for them (The Oak Bay street where they lived was later renamed Clive Drive). They were the parents of three daughters and one son.

His only son, Lieutenant-Commander Clive Phillipps-Wolley, died,