Samuel Phillips (28 December 1814 – 14 October 1854) was an English journalist.
Having renounced the Jewish faith, he returned to England and entered Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University, with the design of taking orders.
[1] His father's death, however, meant that he could not afford to stay at Cambridge longer than a term, and in 1841 he took to literary work.
He wrote a novel, Caleb Stukely (1854), and other tales, and about 1845 began a connection with The Times as literary critic.
Phillips took an active part in the formation of the Crystal Palace Company, and wrote their descriptive guides.