Death
Henry Phillpotts still held office as Bishop of Exeter on his death at the age of 91 on 18 September 1869 (The date at the top under his picture is incorrect) and is buried in the churchyard at St Marychurch, Torquay, near his wife, Deborah, née Surtees, who had died six years before him, and was mother by him of eighteen children.
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