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"WALTER GEORGE FRANK PHILLIMORE, PHILLIMORE 1ST Baron (1845-), English judge, was born in London Nov. 21 1845, the eldest son of Sir Robert Joseph Phillimore, 1st bart., a distinguished judge and authority on ecclesiastical and international law ( see 21.405). He was educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford, where he had a distinguished career, obtaining first classes in classics and law, winning the Vinerian scholarship and being elected to an All Souls fellowship. He was called to the bar in 1868. In 1885 he succeeded his father as 2nd bart., and in 1897 was made a judge of the Queen's Bench division, being in 1913 appointed a lord justice of appeal. He retired from the bench in 1916, and in 1918 was raised to the peerage.

As an authority on ecclesiastical law Lord Phillimore carried on the tradition of his family. He published a revised edition of J. H. Blunt's Book of Church Law (1872), besides a second edition of Sir Robert Phillimore's Ecclesiastical Law (1895), and also contributed the articles Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and Canon Law (in part) to the E.B. He was from 1905 to 1908 president of the International Law Association, and has published Three Centuries of Treaties of Peace and their Teaching (1917), besides issuing (1889) a third edition of vol. iv. of Sir Robert Phillimore's International Law. In 1918 he was appointed chairman of the naval prize tribunal. He was English representative on the commission which sat at The Hague (1920) to prepare the scheme of a permanent Court of International Justice, and was also chairman of the Foreign Office committee on the League of Nations.