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Jul 06, 1760 London Died on 01 Jan 0001 (aged 1759)
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About Thomas Phillips Educational Benefactor
- Thomas Phillips (1760 – 30 June 1851), was an educational philanthropist, a major donor to St David's College, Lampeter, and the founder of Llandovery College in Wales.Phillips had been born in London, within the sound of Bow Bells, but to parents from Llandegley, Radnorshire.
- He completed part of his education in Wales and later credited his long life to his hill-climbing youth.
- He became apprenticed to an apothecary at Hay-on-Wye, possibly Mr Powell, before becoming a pupil of the celebrated London surgeon John Hunter of Jermyn Street.
- He qualified as a surgeon in 1780.
- He then joined the Royal Navy serving for two years.
- He travelled as surgeon's mate on the frigate Danae, before visiting military outposts on the St Lawrence, including Montreal and Quebec as surgeon on the Hind.
- After leaving the navy, he qualified as a member of the Company of Surgeons and joined the East India Company.
- He spent much of his career in India, carrying on business as well as working as a surgeon.
- In 1796 he was sent to Botany Bay, Australia, to inspect hospitals.
- In 1800 he married Althea Edwards, daughter of the rector of Cusop, Herefordshire.
- There were to be no children.
- Returning to India, he became Superintending Surgeon and a member of the Bengal Medical Board.
- He travelled to Nepal with the campaign against the Gurkhas under Major-General Robert "Rollicking Rollo" Gillespie.
- He and his assistant cared for the injured as they fell, evidently using a type of mobile field-hospital and dressing-station.
- Phillips also started to set up some small libraries in mess rooms in order to further the education of soldiers serving in India.
- He bought a sugar plantation on the island of St Vincent for £40 000, and, he returned to London, a rich man, in 1817.
