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Adelaide Phillipps
Adelaide Phillipps (26 October 1833 in Stratford-on-Avon, England – 3 October 1882 in Carlsbad, Germany) was an opera singer.
She came to the United States with her family at the age of seven. Her parents placed her on the stage at an early age, and she made her first appearance in January, 1842, at the Tremont Theatre, Boston. The following year she obtained an engagement at the Boston Museum, where she remained about eight years. When Jenny Lind appeared
William Herbert Phillipps
William Herbert Phillipps (3 December 1847 – 6 January 1935), generally referred to as W. Herbert Phillipps, later Sir Herbert Phillipps was a prominent South Australian businessman and philanthropist.
Early days.
Herbert was the son of Susannah (1813 – 26 December 1885) and James Phillips ( –1861), a medical student turned saddler and lay preacher who arrived in Adelaide in 1839. He was born in Rosina Street, in a house which was reputedly the first in the city to be made