Ivor Philipps

Sir Ivor Philipps, (9 September 1861 – 15 August 1940) was a British officer in the British Indian Army and a Liberal Party politician. He held a seat in the House of Commons from 1906 to 1922. and his wife Mary Margaret, daughter of Rev. Samuel Best and sister of George Best, 5th Baron Wynford. His older brother John Philipps (1860–1938) was a Liberal Party politician who became Baron St Davids in 1908 and Viscount St Davids in 1918; his younger brothers include Lord Kylsant and Lord Milford. Philipps was educated at Felsted School. with the Tirah Field Force from 1897 to 1898. He was appointed to a staff position at Indian army headquarters on 28 November 1899, as Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General for Mobilization.

With the outbreak of the Boxer Rebellion in China the following summer he was temporary attached to the China Field Force from June 1900, and served in China until 1901 as Quartermaster-General. While still serving as a seconded officer on special service in China, he formally resigned from his staff position at the India army headquarters in May 1902,

He retired from the army in 1903, and joined the Pembroke Yeomanry as second-in-command, becoming commander from 1908 to 1912. At each of the previous two general elections, the city's two parliamentary seats had been won by a Conservative and a Liberal Unionist; in 1906 the Liberals won both seats. Philipps was re-elected in Southampton at both the January 1910 and December 1910 general elections, i.e. as holders of the "coalition coupon", a sent to parliamentary candidates at the 1918 election endorsing them as official representatives of the Coalition Government. However, Philipps and Ward were both defeated at the 1922 general election by Conservative Party candidates,

Personal life In 1891 he married Marian Isobel, a daughter of James Buchan Mirrlees, of Glasgow.