Family and Education
Phillipps was born in Beckenham, Kent the son of Henry Mitchell Phillipps. In 1883 he went to Charterhouse School and in 1886 he travelled to Heidelberg in southern Germany to study for three years, returning fluent in German. In 1890 he went to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, obtaining his bachelor’s degree in the modern languages tripos in 1893. In 1899 he married Agnes Ford from Edinburgh and they had a son and two daughters.
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