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Joseph Phillimore
1750–1831
An 18th- and early-19th-century English clergyman, he wrote in a direct, pastoral voice shaped by parish life in rural Leicestershire. His surviving work offers a small but vivid glimpse of how one village vicar tried to guide and encourage his community.
3 Audiobooks
A Religious Tract, Recommending a Christian's Duty, Most Respectfully, to the Parishioners of Orton on the Hill & Twycross, in the County of Leicester.
by Joseph Phillimore
A Sermon Preached at Kensington Church, on June the 29th, 1794 After the Victory Gained at Sea, June the 1st
by Joseph Phillimore
A Sermon: Thou shalt not commit Adultery
by Joseph Phillimore
About the author
Born in 1750 or 1751, Joseph Phillimore was educated at Westminster School and at Christ Church, Oxford. Records also identify him as the vicar of Orton-on-the-Hill in Leicestershire from 1804 until his death in 1831.
He is best known today for A Religious Tract, Recommending a Christian's Duty, Most Respectfully, to the Parishioners of Orton on the Hill & Twycross, in the County of Leicester, a work addressed to the people of his parish. The book reflects a practical, local kind of ministry: less grand theology than everyday moral and religious advice.
Phillimore was also the father of Joseph Phillimore (1775–1855), the civil lawyer and Oxford professor. I wasn't able to confirm a suitable portrait image from the pages I checked, so no profile image is included here.