# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-phillipps
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:26:02.216Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-phillipps"
name: "Thomas Phillipps"
slug: "thomas-phillipps"
description: "Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1st Baronet, was an English antiquary and book collector who amassed the largest collection of manuscript material in the 19th century. He was an illegitimate son of a textile manufacturer and inherited a substantial estate, which he spent almost entirely on vellum manuscripts and, when out of funds, borrowed heavily to buy manuscripts, thereby putting his family deep into debt. Phillipps recorded in an early catalogue that his collection was instigated by reading various accounts of the destruction of valuable manuscripts. Such was his devotion that he acquired some 40,000 printed books and 60,000 manuscripts, arguably the largest collection a single individual has created, and coined the term \"vello-maniac\" to describe his obsession, which is more commonly termed bibliomania."
tagline: "British antiquarian and book collector (1792-1872)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Phillipps3.gif?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1792-07-02"
deathDate: "1872-02-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.63
  momentum:             17.70864946889226
  historical:           8.308678666666665
  currentAttention:     30
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Phillipps"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Phillipps_(Sammler)"
    title: "Thomas Phillipps (Sammler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Phillipps"
    title: "Thomas Phillipps"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Phillipps"
    title: "Thomas Phillipps"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Phillipps"
    title: "Thomas Phillipps"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%83%97%E3%82%B9_(%E5%88%9D%E4%BB%A3%E6%BA%96%E7%94%B7%E7%88%B5)"
    title: "トーマス・フィリップス (初代準男爵)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Phillipps"
    title: "Thomas Phillipps"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Phillipps"
    title: "Thomas Phillipps"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BF%D1%81%2C_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%81_(%D0%B1%D0%B8%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BE%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BB)"
    title: "Филлипс, Томас (библиофил)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2147709"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump