PHILPOTTS, HENRY

PHILPOTTS, HENRY
   bishop of Exeter, born in Bridgwater, a keen Tory and uncompromising High-Churchman, the chief actor in the celebrated GORHAM CASE (q.v. GORHAM, GEORGE CORNELIUS), and noted for his obstinate opposition to political reform as the opening of the floodgates of democracy, which he dreaded would subvert everything that was dear to him (1778-1869).

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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