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James Surtees Phillpotts
J.S. Phillpotts MA BCL
Born	18 July 1839
Died	16 October 1930

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J.S. Phillpotts in Morris Cowley car, 1930

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James Surtees Phillpotts was born in Cornwall on 18 July 1839. He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford. He died in Tunbridge Wells on 16 October 1930.

"He was invariably badly dressed, and never looked so well in anything as in his cap and gown. In general appearance he was something like Ruskin; but although he sometimes liked to talk art, he knew practically nothing about it. He would insist on making speeches although he was the worst speaker in England; he would insist on trying to talk French and German, although he had the vilest accent ever heard. When he tried to tell a joke or relate a comic story, it was pain and misery to listen; when he danced, his movements were those of a half-tamed buffalo; when he played whist he invariably fell asleep in the middle of the rubber." _{-- A former pupil}

He was invariably badly dressed, and never looked so well in anything as in his cap and gown. In general appearance he was something like Ruskin; but although he sometimes liked to talk art, he knew practically nothing about it. He would insist on making speeches although he was the worst speaker in England; he would insist on trying to talk French and German, although he had the vilest accent ever heard. When he tried to tell a joke or relate a comic story, it was pain and misery to listen; when he danced, his movements were those of a half-tamed buffalo; when he played whist he invariably fell asleep in the middle of the rubber. - A former pupil

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