Philip Metcalfe
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Portrait (c. 1766–1767), oil on canvas, by Pompeo Batoni (1708–1787), National Gallery Collections
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| Born |
29 August 1733 London |
| Died | 26 August 1818 (aged 84) Brighton, Sussex |
| Nationality | English |
| Residence | Hawstead House, Hawstead, Suffolk |
| Occupation | Member of Parliament, Industrialist |
Philip Metcalfe, MP, FRS, FSA, (29 August 1733 – 26 August 1818), was an English Tory politician, a malt distiller and a philanthropist.
The Metcalfe family were from Yorkshire of the Catholic faith and Royalists during the Civil war.
He was born in London on 29 August 1733 and christened in Much Hadham in Hertford on 14 December 1733, second son of Roger Metcalfe (1680 – 5 January 1744-5), a surgeon of Brownlow Street now Betterton Street, Drury Lane, London and Jemima Metcalfe (born on 3 August 1703) née Astley, he was named after his grandfather Sir Philip Astley (1667–1739), 2nd Baronet of Hill Morton. Jemima Metcalfe married afterwards to Henry Groome, a limen-draper of St Paul's, Covent Garden and who was also the Keeper of the Guildhall and a member of the Worshipful Company of Musicians.
Mectalfe is said to have been the apprentice of Robert Jones (died in 1774), a wine merchant and East India Company director who became a member of Parliament for Huntingdon from 1754 to 1774. According to English painter and diarist Joseph Farington, Jones wanted Meltcalfe to marry Ann Jones (1747-1832), his only daughter and sole heir, she was still a minor when she chose instead to marry with a Marriage license a British officer, James Whorwood Adeane (1740-1802) at Marylebone on 5 March 1763. Through his brother Christopher, Metcalfe became involved with the Three Mills venture in 1759. From partner, Metcalfe will eventually become the head of the Three Mills distillery.
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