PHILLIPS, SAMUEL LEVI (originally SAMUEL LEVI) (c. 1730-1812), banker and jeweller;
b. probably at Frankfort-on-Main, Germany. With his brother, MOSES, he came to London (he had property in Lambeth) and settled at Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire. There they were befriended by a Phillips, whose surname they adopted, and were baptized (Moses on 23 June 1755) at S. Mary's church, Haverfordwest. Samuel was one of the founders of the Haverfordwest Bank and the Milford Bank. He m. Dorothy Hood, and amongst their children were Philip, whose grandson was Hugh Price Hughes (q.v.), and Sarah (1757-1817), who m. David Charles I (q.v.). Their daughter, Eliza (1798-1876), m. Robert Davies (1790-1841) (q.v.).
Bibliography:
- W. Wales Hist. Records, vi, 155-8;
- Er Clod, 69-71;
- personal information.
Author:
Thomas Iorwerth Ellis, M.A., (1899-1970), Aberystwyth
