Erasmus Philipps ( 1699 - 1743 )

Birth: 08 November 1699 Death: River Avon, near Bath, Somerset (15 October 1743) Education: Pembroke College, Oxford (matriculated 1720); Lincoln's Inn (admitted 1721) Career: MP for Haverfordwest (1726-death); Trustee of the Georgia Society (1732); travelled to Italy for the sake of his health (1739); drowned on his way home from Bath, after his horse was frightened by some pigs and threw him into the Avon Membership: Fellow Election Date: 15/02/1727 Proposers: Robert Hucks; William Rutty; James Jurin.