Philipps, John

Member of Board, for Earl of Moray, resides St Colme.

06/02/1849 - elected chairman of Board for the current year.

21/06/1849, 07/08/1849, 14/02/1850, 15/08/1850, 07/02/1851, 21/08/1851, 30/10/1851, 12/02/1852, 12/08/1852, 02/09/1852, 25/02/1853, 27/05/1853, 18/11/1853, 26/05/1854, 08/09/1854, 02/05/1855, 24/08/1855, 09/11/1855, 22/02/1856, 21/11/1856, 27/02/1857 – chaired meeting when letters from Mr Moncrieff, writer, Perth and James Dalgliesh Esq were read, respecting the mode of assessing for the poor.

It was agreed to consider at the next meeting of the Board, the propriety of putting the parish under a legal assessment.

05/06/1857 – it was unanimously resolved to place the parish on legal assessment at 11th November next and to adopt the first mode of assessment as specified in the Act, being one half on owners and the other half on tenants or occupants and the Inspector was instructed to write to the Board of Supervision and intimate the same and request them to approve of this resolution, fix the number of members to be elected, and also sanction the first Friday of November for the annual election of members and the second Fridays of November and May for the statutory half yearly meetings.

05/06/1857, 21/08/1857, 17/12/1857 – stated that while he held himself to be a constituent member of this Board in his character of Commissioner for the Earl of Moray and therefore eligible to be elected Chairman of the Board, he still had much pleasure in resigning the office and homologating the appointment of Mr Stenhouse.

14/05/1858, 12/11/1858, 11/11/1859, 09/12/1859, 11/05/1860 – chaired meeting in which it was agreed to reduce as much as possible the cause of disease in the Parish. The Board nominated the Parochial Board as the local authority for executing the Act 19 & 20 Vic Cap 103 and appointed a committee - James Stenhouse Jr, John Peebles and Andrew Dowie, any two a quorum with the power to take the assistance of Mr Terris to receive notices, take proceedings and execute the said Act.

09/11/1860, 10/05/1861.

09/05/1862 – Appointed representative of the Board to attend meetings held in Edinburgh regarding amendment of the Lunacy Act.

24/03/1865, 12/05/1865, 10/11/1865, 09/11/1866, 18/08/1867, 14/05/1869, 10/11/1871, 08/08/1873 – The Chairman stated that the late Mr Phillips, Chamberlain to the Earl of Moray, having now been removed from us by death, it becomes us to record in our Minutes the deep sense we have always entertained of the long and beneficial services which he has uniformly rendered to the Parish of Beath. In many respects the late Mr Phillips was peculiarly well qualified for the situation which he had held for upwards of 20 years – and especially by his amiable temper, and by his excellent Business habits. It was agreed that a copy of this minute be transmitted to Mrs Phillips with an expression of our deep sympathy with her and her family under this heavy bereavement.

This is an entry from the name index to the Beath Parochial Minute Board, 1845-81.

For the original - Minute Book see FCC/16/10/1.