His great-grandparents were Philip Key and Susanna Barton Gardiner, both of whom were born in London and immigrated to Maryland in 1726.

He studied law at St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland and also learned under his uncle Philip Barton Key.

This defense was first used by U. S. Congressman Daniel Sickles of New York in 1859 after he had killed his wife's lover, Philip Barton Key, but was most used during the 1940s and 1950s.

* February 27 – U. S. Congressman Daniel Sickles shoots Philip Barton Key for having an affair with his wife.

* February 27 – Philip Barton Key, U. S. District Attorney ( b. 1818 )

Key proponents of this notion have included Ellen Churchill Semple, Ellsworth Huntington, Thomas Griffith Taylor, and possibly Jared Diamond or Philip M. Parker.

This defense was first used by U. S. Congressman Daniel Sickles of New York in 1859 after he had killed his wife's lover, Philip Barton Key, but was most used during the 1940s and 1950s.

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In 1859, Stanton was the defense attorney in the sensational trial of Daniel E. Sickles, a politician and later a Union general, who was tried on a charge of murdering his wife's lover, Philip Barton Key II ( son of Francis Scott Key ), but was acquitted after Stanton invoked one of the first uses of the insanity defense in U. S. history.

* Philip Barton Key ( 1818 – 1859 ), son of Francis Scott Key, Shot and killed by Daniel E. Sickles, his lover's husband, at Lafayette Park, Washington, D. C., 27 February 1859

( Barnes Compton was able to trace his ancestry to politician Philip Key, a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1779 to 1790, who was a maternal great-grandfather.

Philip Key may refer to:

* Philip Key ( U. S. politician ), Representative of the State of Maryland in the United States Congress from 1791 to 1792

* Philip Barton Key, Representative of the State of Maryland in the United States Congress from 1807 to 1812

* Philip Barton Key II, murder victim in a controversial nineteenth-century trial

Key is also the cousin of Philip Barton Key and great-grandfather of Barnes Compton.

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Harper's Weekly engraving of Philip Barton Key from a photograph by Mathew Brady

Philip Barton Key ( April 5, 1818 – February 27, 1859 ) was a United States Attorney for the District of Columbia.

Born in Georgetown in Washington, D. C., Key was the son of Francis Scott Key and the great-nephew of Philip Barton Key.

* The Alcazar Gardens was built in the plaza where the Old Cathedral and the Episcopal Palace existed before and was created on the occasion of the marriage of Philip II to Anne of Austria in 1750, removing the ruins that still existed.

That year, at the behest of Prince Bishop Karl Philip von Greiffenklau, he traveled to Würzburg where he arrived in November 1750.

Thomas married Hannah Harrison Ludwell ( 1701 – 1750 ), the daughter of Colonel Philip Ludwell II ( 1672 – 1726 ) of Green Spring Plantation, and Hannah Harrison ( 1679 – 1731 ).

* Philip Sherard, 2nd Earl of Harborough ( 1680 – 1750 )

Building work was commenced in 1750 by Eigtved, and was supervised first by architect Christian Josef Zuber and later by Philip de Lange.

Thomas Pell's grandson Philip Pell II built Pelhamdale at Pelham Manor, New York about 1750.

* Philip Sherard, 2nd Earl of Harborough 17 July 1733 – 20 July 1750

* 1810 – Philip Henry Gosse, English naturalist ( d. 1888 )

* 1245 – Philip III of France ( d. 1285 )

* 1922 – Philip Larkin, English poet ( d. 1985 )

* 338 BC – A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean.

* 1949 – Philip Casnoff, American actor

In the wars of Philip V of Macedon and the Epirotes against the Aetolian league ( 220 – 205 ) Ambracia passed from one alliance to the other, but ultimately joined the latter confederacy.

* 1165 – Philip II of France ( d. 1223 )

In 1635 – 38, Pietro Boncompagni commissioned from Algardi a colossal statue of Philip Neri with kneeling angels for Santa Maria in Vallicella, completed in 1640.

* 1545 – Elisabeth of Valois, third wife of Philip II of Spain ( d. 1568 )

* 1578 – Philip III of Spain ( d. 1621 )

* Philip the Evangelist ( 8: 4 – 40 )

* 1900 – Philip Phillips, American archaeologist ( d. 1994 )

* 1404 – Philip II, Duke of Burgundy ( b. 1342 )

* Philip Michael Ellis ( 1652 – 1726 )

Barcelona had always been the stronghold of Catalan separatism and was the center of the Catalan Revolt ( 1640 – 52 ) against Philip IV of Spain.

* Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery 1894 – 1896

* Philip Rea, 2nd Baron Rea 1955 – 1967

** Philip I ( 1060 – 1108 )

** Philip II ( 1180 – 1223 )

** Philip III ( 1271 – 1285 )

** Philip IV ( 1285 – 1314 )

** Philip V ( 1316 – 1322 )

** Philip VI ( 1328 – 1350 )

** Philip ( 1700 – 1707 )

** Philip ( 1700 – 1713 )