Phillips, Richard (1778–1851), chemist, was born on 21 November 1778, in George Yard, Lombard Street, London, the fifth of at least eleven children of James Phillips (1745–1799), printer and bookseller, and his wife, Mary (c.1746–1808), daughter of the London linen draper ...
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