At the time of the 1871 England Census William P Phillips, aged 10, born in Forest Hill Kent, was with his father and step-mother in Sydenham Rise, St. Giles Camberwell.
At the time of the 1881 England Census William P Phillips, aged 20, born in Forest Hill Kent, unmarried, B.A. Camb. student, was in Cavendish College, Hills Rd., Trumpington, Cambridgeshire.
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PHILLIPS.—At Cheam, Surrey, after a few days' illness, William Peel Phillips, B.A., late of Cavendish College, Cambridge, in his 25th year, son of William Phillips, of Eltham, and the London Coal Exchange.
Greenwich and Deptford Observer, Friday, 20 Mar 1885, p. 1
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Administration of the personal estate of William Peel Phillips late of Cheam in the County of Surrey, classical tutor, a bachelor, who died 15 March 1885 at Cheam, was granted 4 June at the Principal Registry to William Phillips of 25 Coal-Exchange in the City of London, coal merchant, the father and next of kin. Personal estate £1,572. 4