Philip Pilditch

Sir Philip Edward Pilditch, 1st Baronet, JP (12 August 1861 – 17 December 1948) was a British architect and Unionist politician.

[1][2][3] Pilditch was active in the Conservative Party, and stood unsuccessfully at St Ives at the 1906 general election and at Islington East in December 1910.

[4] The Islington seat was marginal, and at the next council elections in 1910 he was returned for the safer electoral division of Strand.

[2][3] Pilditch held a commission in the 1st Sussex Volunteer Artillery, retiring with the rank of captain.

He was also involved in the preservation of the Elizabethan architecture of his home town and served as the president of the Old Plymouth Society.