Thomas Phillips (5 July 1708, Ickford, Buckinghamshire – 16 June 1774, Liège) was an English Jesuit priest, known as the biographer of Reginald Cardinal Pole.
[citation needed] Soon after Phillip's admission to holy orders his father died, leaving him independently wealthy.
During the third year of his philosophical course, on 17 July 1731, he made a voluntary renunciation of his property to the college at Liège and the provincial, the Rev John Turberville.
In the second year of his course of theology he sought permission to conduct a course of humanities at St Omer, against the requirement of the Society to accept assignments, and he was turned down.
William Cole's unpublished Observations on answers to Phillips's book, and correspondence with the author, went to the British Museum.
[9][10] Other works were:[1] Augustin de Backer attributed to him Reasons for the Repeal of the Laws against the Papists, by Robert Berkeley of Spetchley.