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Died 8 July 1918, Duncan, Canada Books Sport in the Crimea and Cauc, Gold - Gold - in Cariboo: A Story of, On Big Game Shooting, Big Game Shooting in the Cauc | ||
Sir Clive Phillipps-Wolley (born Edward Clive Oldnall Long Phillipps, 1853–1918) was a British-Canadian author and big game hunter. His two most famous poems are perhaps The Sea Queen Wakes (1896) and Coronation Hymn composed in honour of the coronation of George V.
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Edward Clive Oldnall Long Phillipps was born in 1853 as the eldest son of a public schoolmaster Richard Augustus Long Phillipps, who was distantly related to Lord Robert Clive. After education at Rossall School, Edward Clive Phillipps was appointed, at age 20, to the vice-consulship of the British Legation in Kerch, Crimea. He explored and hunted big game in the Caucasus. He studied law, was called to the bar at Middle Temple but practised law for less than a year. In 1877, as a legally entitled but distantly related male inheritor, he successfully petitioned to inherit the Wolley estate with land covering about two hundred acres. He added the Wolley family name to his own and dropped "Edward" from his legal name. Phillips-Wolley resigned from the British consular service and In 1879 married Jane Fenwick, the second daughter of Rear-Admiral William Henry Fenwick (1827–1906). Phillipps-Wolley joined the fourth battalion of the South Wales Borderers, taught marksmanship, and attained the rank of captain. In 1882 he went on a two-month hunting trip in British Columbia and in the autumn of 1887 he went, accompanied by his wife, on another visit to Canada and they stayed for a considerable time in Victoria, British Columbia. In the early 1890s Clive and Jane Phillipps-Wolley, with their three daughters and only son, settled in Oak Bay, British Columbia in a mansion designed for them by the architect William Ridgway Wilson (1863–1957). (The Oak Bay street where they lived was later renamed Clive Drive.) He edited for Longman, Green & Company's Badminton Library the 2-volume collection Big Game Shooting (1894) and contributed 2 essays to the first volume and 4 essays to the second volume; a second edition of the 2 volumes was published in 1895. In 1896 Phillipps-Wolley was appointed to enforce the Health Act in the mining districts of British Columbia. In the early 1900s the family moved into an estate occupying all of Piers Island, sold in 1909. In 1912 the family moved to "The Grange", a mansion located near Duncan, British Columbia and designed according to their requirements by the architect Samuel Maclure.
In 1908 Phillipps-Wolley began to warn of the dangers posed by an expanding German navy and in 1910 joined the Navy League of Canada. For his patriotic verse in support of the British empire and his work for the Navy League, he was knighted in 1914. His only son, Lieutenant-Commander Clive Phillipps-Wolley, died, along with 47 other crew members, on 22 September 1914 in the sinking of HMS Hogue by the German U-boat U-9.