Thompson Phillips

Thompson Phillips was Archdeacon of Furness from 1892 until 1901.
Born at Convamore, County Cork, Ireland, he was educated at Manchester [Grammar School], Trinity [College, Dublin] and St John's College, Cambridge, and ordained priest in 1857. After curacies in Paddington and Coventry he held incumbencies at Holme Eden, Ivegill and Barrow-in-Furness.
He married Eliza, daughter of General James Wallace Sleigh. Their eldest son was James Robert Phillips.
For twelve years he employed Elizabeth Everest as a nanny to his daughter, Ella; in 1894, after Mrs Everest was dismissed as nanny to Winston and Jack Churchill, Rev. Phillips took her into his home for about a year, until she found her final home with her sister.