Sir Herbert Phillips KCMG OBE, (1878-1957) was a British diplomat who served in China.

[1] Phillips joined the British China consular service as a student interpreter in 1898.

In 1904, he acted as Chief Clerk and Registrar of the British Supreme Court for China and Corea.

He was promoted to First Class Assistant in 1906 and served as Acting Vice Consul in Chongqing from December 1907 to April 1909.

He was appointed Inspector-General of Consular Establishments in the Far East with the personal rank of Consul General in 1925 and then served as consul general in Nanjing (although based in Shanghai) and then in Canton from February 1930.