John Erasmus Tracy Philipps
| Capt.; Dr John Erasmus Tracy Philipps BLitt MC FRGS; MC MA BLitt Hon DCL | |||||||||||
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| Born | 1888 | ||||||||||
| Died | 1959 | ||||||||||
| Residence |
Entebbe, Uganda Khartoum, Sudan; Army & Navy Club, Pall Mall, SW1 [1925] Army and Navy Club, 36 Pall Mall, SW1 [1937] E. Hagbourne Grange, near Didcot, Berks [census] 46 Pall Mall, SW1 [1949] | ||||||||||
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armed services literary diplomacy | ||||||||||
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1917.06.21 proposed by R.R. Marett, seconded by Henry Balfour
writer, diplomatic correspondent and farmer [census]
1959.10.08 death noted
Notes From Elsewhere
James Erasmus Tracey Philipps MC (1888–1959) was a British diplomat and explorer
Philipps was the son of the Reverend John Erasmus Philipps, Vicar of Enstone, Oxfordshire, and Margaret Louisa Everard Ffolkes. He married the pianist Lubka Kolessa in Prague in March 1939[1]
After his schooling at Abingdon and Marlborough College he entered Durham University, where he was a member of Hatfield College, and graduated in 1912 with an arts degree.[2] He also became editor of The Sphinx and president of the Durham Union. Joining the Rifle Brigade in 1912, Philipps transferred as Captain to the South African Intelligence Department. During the First World War he was attached to the King's African Rifles and was awarded the Military Cross in 1917.[3] He joined the Arab Bureau in Cairo in 1918 and then the British Relief Commission to southern Russia in 1921. He was The Times correspondent in the Greco-Turkish War and subsequently continued working as a foreign correspondent. He served as a member of UNRRA and travelled on foot from east to west across Equatorial Africa.
Publications
External Publications
The Azande in J.Roy. African Soc. Oct 1926 [and many other articles in this journal]
House Publications
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