Philip Meadowes

[1] He was baptised on 21 May 1672, the second son of Sir Philip Meadows of Chattisham, Suffolk, and his wife Constance Lucy.

He studied at Trinity College, Oxford, matriculating 1689, and at Lincoln's Inn, which he entered in 1690.

[2] Sir Philip's daughter, Mary, was a maid of honour to Queen Caroline at the court of King George II.

Caroline had died in 1737, the year her "character" was described in "affectionate and humorous correspondence" between Mary's second cousin, attorney Philip Meadows, Lord of the Manor of Diss (1719–1783),[4] and his "future brother-in-law" Richard Taylor (1719–1763).

[12] Also a member of the society was Sir Leonard Smelt who, like Meadows, had been a member of the court of King George II in 1720 when Meadows held the position of 'Comptroller of the Accounts of the Army' and Smelt held the position of 'Commissioner for Taking, Stating and Examining Debts Due to the Army'.