Birth location from Bernard Allen

Parish Records Manchester Cathedral
Christening July 22, 1892 Thomas Phillipps son of Hanna Walton

Parish Records Charlton Kings, Gloucestershire
Thomas Phillipps Esquire Gentleman of the Parish of Broadway in the County of Worcester and
Harriet Molyneux spinster of this Parish were married by licence with consent of parents thus twenty third day of February in the Year One thousand eight hundred and nineteen
by me W.G.H. Somerset Clerk A,M. Vicar of Stoke Gifford County Gloster
In the presence of Thomas Molyneux, Emilia Molyneux, William Morgan, Katherine Molyneux, Thomas Molyneux Senior, Maria Molyneux, John Molyneux, Thomas Foster, Clerk

In the 1841 census Middle Hill, Broadway, Worcestershire
Sir Thomas Phillipps, age 45, independent, not born in the county.
Henrietta Phillipps, age 20, not born in the county.
Mary? Phillipps, age 15, not born in county.
Katherine Phillipps, age 13, not born in the county.
5 female servants, 3 other servants
Henry? Lord ????, age 70 independent, not born in the county
Sarah Lady ditto, age 45, not born in county
Anthony? Drden, age 20, not born in county.

England Select Marriages
Marriage June 2, 1842, Leamington Priors, Warwick, England, Thomas Phillips, father Thomas Phillipps and
Elizabeth Harriet Anna Mansel, father William John Mansel

In the 1861 census Middle Hill, Broadway Worcestershire
Head Thomas Phillipps, age 68, Baronet Deputy Lieutenant for County Worcestershire, M. A. Oxford, born Ashton Under Lyme, Cheshire.
Wife Elizabeth H. H. M. Phillips, age 45, born Britt House, Buckinghamshire.
6 servants including a printer compositor
Visitor Alen Bussemaker, unmarried, age 51, physician, born Amsterdam, Holland.
Visitor [very likely a relative] Charles Cotterell, married, age 35, writer, born Campsen, Gloucestershire.

In the 1871 census Thurlestine House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Head Sir Thomas Phillipps, age 78, Baronet, born Brill Buckinghamshire. [The birth location seems to be his wife’s.]
Wife Elizabeth Phillipps, age 50, no birth location staed.
a boarder, librarian
housekeepr, housemaid, parlour maid, 2 gardiners, 2 lodge keepers, 1 cook and 1 seemstress
Next door at Thurlestine Cottage is a printer and compositor and his wife a dressmaker and thier children 1 of whom is a bookbinder and another is a printer.

National Probate Calendar
19 June 1872 The Will of Sir Thomas Phillipps late of Middle Hill Broadway in the County of Worcester and of Thirlestane House in the County of Gloucester Baronet who died 6 February 1872 at Thirlestaine House was proved at the Principal Registry by Samuel Higgs Gael of 5 Verulam-buildings Gray’s Inn in the County of Middlesex and of Charlton King’s in the County of Gloucester Esquire Barrister-at-Law and the Reverend John Haydon Cardew of Greville House Cheltenha in the County of Gloucester Clerk two of the executors. Effects under 120 000 pounds.

see wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Phillipps

From The Cotterell Family Tree at ancestry.co.uk by David Cotterell
Bibliomaniac
Posted 13 Dec 2007 by davidcotterell 

Entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National BIography reads:-
Sir Thomas Phillipps, first baronet (1792-1872) antiquary and bibliophile; of Rugby and University College Oxford, MA 1820; showed from his earliest years a passion for collecting books and manuscripts; his collection rich in old Welsh poetry, possessed 400 or 500 volumes of oriental manuscripts; created baronet, 1821; established (c.1822) a private printing press at his residence, Middle Hill, Broadway, Worcestershire; printed visitations, extracts from registers, genealogies, catularies and brief catalogues of collections of manuscripts in private and public libraries; removed in later life to Thurlestane House, Cheltenham Glos:.
In actual fact the story of Sir Thomas Phillipps is much more robust than the foregoing summary. He was a complete nutcase and bought indescriminately every book and manuscript he could lay his hands on, to such an extent that every room in MIddle Hill was filled books in specially constructed boxes, (for quick removal in case of fire), and the family lived in the housekeepers room still surrounded by books and unopened packages of books and papers he had bought. He fell out with his family who accused him of bankrupting the family estate and indeed with virtually everyone he came into contact with. His son-in-law, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps eventually inherited the estate by testamentary disposition and Sir Thomas upped and moved all his library to Thurlestane House Cheltenham. All the transport was by horse and cart and it is recorded that the road between Middle Hill and Cheltenham  was littered with carts broken by the weight of the books and papers. In all he collected over 60,000 books and more than 40,000 manuscripts to form the largest library in the world. His heirs tried to sell the complete library to the British Museum but the cost was too great and it was broken up and sold all over the world. The last three boxes were sold quite recently by Sothebys. He is credited with saving many valuable manuscripts which he bought amongst job lots of vellum being sold to shoemakers for boot linings.    

Vello-Maniac
Posted 27 Feb 2008 by davidcotterell 

Sir Thomas Phillips Possibly one of the most singular and renowned characters of the North Cotswolds, Sir Thomas Phillipps achieved fame and world notoriety as, of all things, a “bibliophile”.  Not many people have that distinction and probably not many of the hundreds who walk the Cotswold Way realise that, when at Broadway Tower which was part of his estate, they are within a stones throw of Middle Hill House which once housed the biggest collection of books and manuscripts in the world. Sir Thomas was not your normal baronet either, he was the illegitimate son of one Thomas Phillipps, a wealthy senior partner in Phillipps Lowe & Company of Manchester which specialised in printing calico. Phillipps senior ensured that Sir Thomas got a good education however and sent him to Rugby School and then University College Oxford. It was at Oxford that the fascination with book collecting really took hold to become a life long obsession.On retirement from the calico trade Phillipps senior’s returned to his home territory where he made the grand gesture of buying Middle Hill Estate, which included  Broadway Tower and surrounding farms and moved there with his son (Sir Thomas). Both had characters described as irascible and both had hearing afflictions, which made communication a problem so that they quickly became notorious as being “difficult”.  Phillipps senior, who protested strongly about the cost of “all the book collecting”, also objected to his son’s liaison with a future wife Henrietta Molyneaux, (because she had no dowry), and it was not until he died in 1818 that they were able to marry. From then on Sir Thomas, with a handsome annual income for the day of some £6,000 could wilfully indulge his obsession to the extent that he amassed some 60,000 books and 40,000 manuscripts, all of which were housed at Middle Hill. He developed a unique storage system in coffin like boxes with drop down fronts to enable them to be moved with facility in case of fire. “Middle Hill Press” was installed in Broadway Tower and it was there that, perhaps a little crudely but effectively, many irreplaceable manuscripts were copied and saved for posterity. He fathered three daughters and the first ten years of marriage were probably the happiest of his life but his frantic purchases of books and manuscripts all over Europe virtually bankrupted the estate and he was debt ridden and haunted by creditors forever after. His wife, Henrietta, died young, and he systematically searched for, and found, a wealthy wife in Elizabeth Mansel.Despite all his problems he still entertained many eminent writers and artists of the day including James Orchard Halliwell and this young man promptly fell in love with one of his daughters, (also called Henrietta). Unfortunately Halliwell was accused of stealing documents from Trinity College and, although never proven, he was temporarily barred from the British Museum Library. Sir Thomas was outraged at being associated with this alleged disgrace and forbade his daughter Henrietta to see Halliwell ever again but they promptly eloped and got married. At this point the plot thickens as, wary of his sons profligacy in book buying, Sir Thomas’s father had left him the life tenancy but the estate was entailed in favour of Henrietta and, as a result of her marriage, Halliwell became the residual legatee. That was a declaration of war and Sir Thomas did everything in his power to vilify Halliwell and destroy his reputation; fortunately without great success, but he was never again reconciled with daughter Henrietta despite her efforts to heal the breach. Halliwell was now accused of neglecting the estate, although it had been neglected for many years, and Sir Thomas to ensure that Halliwell didn’t get his hands on his collection took a lease on,and ultimately bought, a bleak and uncomfortable mansion, Thirlestaine House in Cheltenham, the former home of Lord Northwick. Over the next two years the whole mass of books and papers was transported using two hundred carts and three hundred horses and Sir Thomas vacated Middle Hill forever  leaving it a shambles. On Sir Thomas’s death it was discovered that he had left clauses in his will forbidding access to his collection by Halliwell or any Roman Catholic and it was some years before court orders could be obtained to overturn these conditions. The British Museum declined to finance a purchase of the collection and it was gradually catalogued and sold off all over the world. The last three boxes were sold as recently as 1946.This is no more than a précis of the whole lurid story; James Orchard Halliwell hyphenated Phillipps to his name by the testamentary direction and became Shakespeare’s biographer and the founder of the Stratford upon Avon Shakespeare Trust, which acquired New Place. Controversy was never far away though and, like his father-in-law, the quarrels were many. At his death many papers found among his effects alleged to have been taken or torn from library books and documents but his generous bequests seem to be at variance with this claim which could have been malicious.Sir Thomas Phillipps is a distant Cotterell cousin through his Grandmother, Mary Cotterell who is my distant Great Aunt. He was known to my Grandfather who described him as “a crabby old so and so”  but still seemed to have some regard for him.             
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