Amyas Phillips

[6] They renamed the business Phillips of Hitchin, the name which it continued to operate under until its closure in 2014, when Amyas' son Jerome retired.

[3][6][15][16] Due to the interest in 'period style' furnishings in the early 20th century, some antique dealerships, including Phillips of Hitchin, started to focus more on older English furniture like that of the Tudor period.

[6] In the 1920s, Amyas showed Allethaire Ludlow Crummer, who was married to Samuel P. Rotan (then the District Attorney of Philadelphia), around different English country houses.

Robert Rodes McGoodwin was the architect for this house, entitled "Lane's End" (now the Guildford Estate) in Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania.

[7][21] Bailiffscourt is a Grade II* listed 'ancient' manor house in Climping, West Sussex which currently operates as a hotel and spa.

[27][28] Their son, Francis Jerome Phillips, was born in 1939 in Cambridge and took over the family business following Amyas' death in February 1962 in Clophill, Bedfordshire.