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'''Henry Dominic Phillips''' (died 1892) was a British civil servant of the [[Indian civil service]] who served as an official member of the [[Madras Legislative Council]] from 1863 to 1868. He took his seat in December 1864.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.83822/2015.83822.The-Bombay-Almanack-And-Directory-For-1868#page/n180/mode/1up|title=The Bombay Almanack And Directory For 1868|year=1868|work=[[Internet Archive]]|page=144|accessdate=3 June 2017}}</ref>

==Life==
Phillips had his initial education in the [[United Kingdom]] and qualified for the Indian civil service in 1829. He joined the Indian civil service the same year and served from 1829 to 1869.

In 1841 Phillips was appointed a senior merchant of the [[East India Company]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Asiatic Journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UiEYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA526|year=1841|publisher=Parbury, Allen, and Company|page=526}}</ref> He was appointed a puisne judge of the [[Sadr Faujdari Adalat]] in Madras, in 1859.<ref>{{cite book|title=Allen's Indian mail and register of intelligence for British and foreign India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OGlDAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA128|year=1859|page=128}}</ref>

He later served as a puisne judge of the [[Madras High Court]],<ref name="Report">{{cite book|title=Report on the Administration of the Madras Presidency during the year 1869-70|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3aAIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1|year=1870|page=1}}</ref> and resigned at the end of 1864.<ref>{{cite book|title=Reports of Cases Decided in the High Court of Madras|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8ZpDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP7|year=1866|publisher=J. Higginbotham|pages=7–}}</ref> In 1868 he found himself in a minority of one on the Council, on a question relating to the judicial independence of [[Travancore]].<ref>[https://files.aievolution.com/lsa1601/events/12627/0815_Saksena_1243.pdf ''Travancore's Challenge to British Extraterritoriality'' (PDF)], at p. 18</ref> He resigned on 12 December 1869.<ref name="Report"/>

Phillips later resided at [[Hampton Wick]], outside London.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Pall Mall Budget: Being a Weekly Collection of Articles Printed in the Pall Mall Gazette from Day to Day, with a Summary of News|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9b0_AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA4-PA30|year=1875|page=30}}</ref> He died there, at The Maples, on 9 March 1892.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/35684120/|title=The Colonies and India, London; March 19, 1892, Page 17|via=[[Ancestry.com]]|accessdate=3 June 2017}}</ref>

==Family==
Phillips married in 1837 Mary Moore, daughter of the civil servant George Moore, who died on 6 December 1840.<ref>{{cite book|last=Company|first=East India|title=The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LrhAAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA32|accessdate=3 June 2017|year=1837|publisher=Wm. H. Allen & Company|page=32}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cL5AAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA151|year=1841|publisher=Wm. H. Allen & Company|page=151}}</ref> In 1842 he married Caroline Charlotte Tulloch, daughter of Alexander Tulloch C.B.<ref>{{cite book|title=Asiatic Journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VSEYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA399|year=1842|publisher=Parbury, Allen, and Company|page=399}}</ref> His daughter Emma Louisa married Herbert W. Wood, an army officer, in 1869, and his daughter Alice married [[Frederick Price (civil servant)|Frederick Price]] in 1863.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History and Politics of the Year ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XpU9AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA374|year=1861|publisher=J. G. & F. Rivington|page=374}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/dodspeeragebaron02unse_1#page/802/mode/1up|title=Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland|year=1908|work=[[Internet Archive]]|publisher=Simkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent|pages=802|volume=2|accessdate=3 June 2017|location=London}}</ref>

Charlotte Caroline Phillips, of the Maples, Hampton Wick, died a widow on 19 April 1892.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=26290|page=3095|date=May 24, 1892}}</ref>

== References ==
* {{cite book|title=The County a Borough Magistrates List and Official a Parliamentary Register|pages=190|author=Adam Bisset Thom|publisher=BiblioBazaar, LLC|year=2008|ISBN=978-0-559-32820-6}}
* {{cite book|title=Madras High Court reports: reports of cases decided in the High Court of Madras|url=https://archive.org/details/madrashighcourt02indigoog|pages=iii|publisher=[[Higginbotham's]]|year=1864}}

==Notes==
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