"WALTER GEORGE FRANK PHILLIMORE, PHILLIMORE 1ST Baron (1845-), English judge, was born in London Nov. 21 1845, the eldest son of Sir Robert Joseph Phillimore, 1st bart., a distinguished judge and authority on ecclesiastical and international law (see 21.405).
He retired from the bench in 1916, and in 1918 was raised to the peerage.
In 1918 he was appointed chairman of the naval prize tribunal.