Lion Philips

The successors of this company remained active in the tobacco trade until the second half of the twentieth century.

[citation needed] In addition to trading tobacco, the Philips pursued other businesses, including a blanket factory, which later burned down.

Lion Philips and his father Benjamin joined the Dutch Reformed Church on 1 February 1826 with their respective families.

After Henriëtte's death in 1863, Lion, who was named one of her executors, paid what remained after Karl's inheritance: seven thousand guilders, a considerable sum.

[citation needed] In addition, Philips occasionally offered extras, after a lot of flattery: "I squeezed £160 out of my uncle so that we were able to pay off the greater part of our debts", Marx wrote to Friedrich Engels on 7 May 1861.

[citation needed] In the Soviet TV series Karl Marks, Molodye gody (Карл Маркс: Молодые годы, "Karl Marx's early years") the role of Lion Philips is played by the Soviet actor Leonid Bronevoy.

The Market Square of Zaltbommel around 1850. The fourth home on the right is the home of Lion Philips
Portrait of Benjamin Philips, father of Lion Philips
Portrait of Sophie Pressburg, wife of Lion Philips