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Wogan Philipps, 2nd Baron Milford

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In 1962, Philipps inherited his father's title and agreed to sit in the House of Lords as the second Baron Milford. Ironically, this meant that the CPGB's last parliamentary representative was in the House of Lords. He intended to disclaim the peerage but the CPGB leader
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At the end of the Spanish Civil War, Phillips chartered a ship, paid for by donations, to transport 5000 Spanish Republicans from France to Mexico.
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Following his experiences, in 1937 he joined the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), which led his father to
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Philipps' second marriage was to Cristina Casati, Viscountess Hastings, in 1944. She was previously married to
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Having worked as an agricultural labourer in Gloucestershire during the war, Wogan became involved in the
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constituency, but took only 432 votes. During the campaign, opponents - described by Hymie Fagan as
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His wife Christina died in 1953. A year later, Philipps married Tamara Kravetz, the widow of
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to take his place and, in her absence, paid for the education of her children.
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and was the only child of the eccentric Italian arts patron
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Argent a lion rampant Sable ducally gorged and chained Or.
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Philipps died in London on 30 November 1993, aged 91.
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Index

The Right Honourable

Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Hereditary peerage
The 1st Baron Milford
The 3rd Baron Milford
Brentwood, Essex
London
Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB)
Rosamond Lehmann
Laurence Philipps, 1st Baron Milford
Eton College
Oxford University
Magdalen College
Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB)
House of Lords
Laurence Philipps, 1st Baron Milford
Medical Aid to Spain
ambulance driver
Spanish Civil War
Nan Green
disinherit
National Union of Agricultural Workers
councillor
Cirencester
Urban District Council
1950 general election
House of Commons
Cirencester and Tewkesbury

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