A Calendar of wills relating to the counties of Northampton and Rutland: proved in the court of the Archdeacon of Northampton, 1510 to 1652

by William Phillimore Watts Phillimore

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232 pages, Paperback

Published August 10, 2011

About the author

William Phillimore Watts Phillimore (formerly Stiff) MA BCL (1853–1913) was an English solicitor, genealogist and publisher.

William Phillimore Watts Stiff was born on 27 October 1853 in Nottingham, the eldest son of Dr William Phillimore Stiff M.B. Lond., M.R.C.S. Eng., of Sneinton, Nottingham, afterwards superintendent of Nottingham General Lunatic Asylum, and Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Benjamin Watts of Bridgen Hall, Bridgnorth, Shropshire. In 1873 William Stiff senior changed the family surname by royal licence to Phillimore, his great-grandmother's maiden name. William junior studied at The Queen's College, Oxford, and was awarded a second-class degree in Jurisprudence in 1876.