Samuel March Phillipps (1780–1862) was an English civil servant and legal writer.
The second son of Thomas March of More Crichel in Dorset, he was born at Uttoxeter on 14 July 1780.
[1] He was educated at Sherborne, Charterhouse School and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A.
[3] In 1827 Phillipps accepted the post of permanent under-secretary for home affairs, which he held until 1848, when he retired, and was sworn of the privy council.
The eighth and last English edition, in the preparation of which he was assisted by Andrew Amos, appeared at London in 1838, 2 vols.