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.