Philipot, Thomas

(?1616-1682)

   The son of John Philipot, Somerset herald, of the College of Arms, London, he graduated M.A. from Clare Hall, Cambridge, in 1635 and was incorporated in that degree at Oxford in July 1640. He was buried at Greenwich, London. In his will he left some of his money to Clare Hall to establish two fellowships for Kentish men, and the rest to the Clothworkers' Company to establish six almshouses for four people from Eltham and two from Chislehurst (both in what is now Greater London). Some of his poetry publications: A Congratulatory Elegie, 1641. Elegies, 1641. Englands Sorrow, 1646. Poems, 1646. An Elegie Offer'd Up to the Memory of His Excellencie Robert Earle of Essex, 1646. Æsop's Fables, 1687 (in rhyme). Some of his poems: "On Christs Passion, a Descant," "On the Death of a Prince; a Meditation," "On the future burning of the World," "On the Nativity of Our Saviour," "On Thought of Our Resurrection," "The Old Lion," "The Wood and Clown," "To Sir Henry Newton."

   Sources: Dictionary of National Biography. Electronic Edition 1.1. Oxford University Press, 1997. Jacobean and Caroline Poetry: An Antholog y. T.G.S. Cain, ed. Methuen, 1981. Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (http://library.stanford.edu). The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry. 11th ed. The Columbia Granger's World of Poetry, Columbia University Press, 2005 (http://www.columbiagrangers.org). The New Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse. Alastair Fowler, ed. Oxford University Press, 1991.