Lieutenant-General Richard Burton Phillipson (c. 1723–1792) was a British Army officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1762 and 1792.

[1] He joined the army in the 1st The Royal Dragoons, being a cornet in 1744, lieutenant in 1746, captain in 1751, major in 1759 and lieutenant-colonel in 1761.

[3] In the 1768 general election Burton Phillipson (as he was now named) unsuccessfully contested Winchelsea on behalf of Arnold Nesbitt.

However, in 1784 Lord Cornwallis complained of Phillipson having "most provokingly left all his trumpets in London, which is hard upon me in our têtes-à-tête".

[4] Burton Phillipson died unmarried on 18 August 1792[2] at his home Spring Gardens and buried in St Helen's church, Ipswich where there is a memorial tablet on the north wall.