Owen Philipps, 1st Baron Kylsant


Owen Cosby Philipps, 1st Baron Kylsant was a British businessman and politician, jailed in 1931 for producing a document with intent to deceive.

Philipps was the third of five sons of the Reverend Sir James Erasmus Philipps, 12th Baronet, of Picton Castle, and his wife the Hon. Mary, daughter of The Hon. Reverend Samuel Best. Born in Warminster vicarage, Wiltshire, and educated at Newton College, Newton Abbott, Devon, he became an apprentice with a Newcastle upon Tyne shipping firm, Dent amp Co, in 1880 and upon completion of his apprenticeship he moved to the Glasgow shipping firm Allan amp Gow in 1886.

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