John George Phillimore (1808–1865) was an English barrister, known as a jurist and Liberal Party politician.
The eldest son of Joseph Phillimore, he was born on 5 January 1808, and was educated at Westminster School.
[1][2] From 1827 to 1832 Phillimore held a clerkship in the Board of Control for India, and on 23 November 1832 was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn, where he was elected a bencher in 1851.
In 1851 he took silk, and in the following year he was appointed reader in constitutional law and legal history to the Inns of Court.
[2] Phillimore's writings, all published at London, were:[2] By his wife Rosalind Margaret, younger daughter of Sir James Lewis Knight-Bruce, he had issue an only son Egerton Grenville Bagot Phillimore, known as an antiquarian of Welsh language and history.