Phillips Academy's endowment stood around $ 800 million in June 2011, the fourth-highest of any American secondary school.

Phillips Academy admitted only boys until the school became coeducational in 1973, the year of Phillips Academy's merger with Abbot Academy, a boarding school for girls in downtown Andover.

Then-headmaster Theodore Sizer oversaw the merger, and Phillips Academy's move to coeducation is seen as his most important accomplishment.

The school's student-run newspaper, The Phillipian, is the second-oldest secondary school newspaper in the United States, the oldest secondary school newspaper being The Exonian, Phillips Exeter Academy's weekly.

Phillips Academy's traditional opponent is Phillips Exeter Academy, which was established three years later in Exeter, New Hampshire by Samuel Phillips ' uncle, Dr. John Phillips.

The Gilman family also donated the land on which Phillips Exeter Academy stands, including the Academy's original Yard, the oldest part of campus.

Her body is buried in Phillips Academy's cemetery.

They include Peter Phillips, ed., Lingard Remembered: Essays to Mark the Sesquicentenary of John Lingard ’ s Death ( London: Catholic Record Society, 2004 ); Edwin Jones, John Lingard and the Pursuit of Historical Truth ( Brighton, England, and Portland, Oregon: Sussex Academic Press, 2001 ); John Trappes-Lomax, ed., The Letters of Dr. John Lingard to Mrs. Thomas Lomax ( 1835-51 ) ( London: Catholic Record Society, 2000 ); J. A.

In 2004, he toured as part of the group Mutual Admiration Society, along with Glen Phillips ( the front man for the band Toad the Wet Sprocket ) and the members of the band Nickel Creek.

In 1898 a visit of Bert Geer Phillips and Ernest L. Blumenschein to Taos, New Mexico was one of the first steps in the creation of the Taos art colony and the Taos Society of Artists.

In 1915, he became a co-founder of the Taos Society of Artists, together with his friends Bert Phillips, Joseph Henry Sharp, and three other artists.

Bert Geer Phillips ( 15 July 1868 – 16 June 1956 ) was an American artist and a founding member of the Taos Society of Artists.

In 1915, his dream became reality with the formation of the Taos Society of Artists, of which Phillips was a founding member together with his friends Ernest Blumenschein, Joseph Henry Sharp, and three other artists.

The Society was founded in the dining room of Phillips ' in-laws, Doc and Helen Martin, who was herself a batik artist.

In addition to being instrumental in the formation of the Society, Phillips also spent more years in Taos than any other member.

In 1915, he became a founding member of the Taos Society of Artists, along with his friend Bert Phillips and four other artists.

In 1832, Phillips and Graham sold the entire tract of land to seceders from the Harmony Society at Economy, and moved their boat yards to what is now Freedom.

Frank Phillips ' former home in Bartlesville is a museum maintained by the Oklahoma Historical Society.

In 1848, she accepted and was hired for $ 6 a week by Garrison and Wendell Phillips as a lecturer and organizer for the American Anti-Slavery Society in Boston, to speak about the evils of slavery.

He attended Phillips Exeter Academy and graduated in 1827 from Bowdoin College, where he was a prominent member of the Peucinian Society, a literary society.

It was partly the outcome of a previous club known as the Askesian Society and records show that there were 13 founder members: William Babington, James Parkinson, Humphry Davy, George Bellas Greenough, Arthur Aikin, William Allen, Jacques Louis, Comte de Bournon, Richard Knight, James Laird, James Franck, William Haseldine Pepys, Richard Phillips and William Phillips.

When Phillips joined the Massachusetts Anti-slavery Society, he horrified his family, who tried to have him thrown into an insane sanitarium.

* William Phillips ( geologist ) ( 1775 – 1828 ), British mineralogist who founded the Geological Society of London

Phillips was a member of the Religious Society of Friends.

In 1796 he and his brother Richard Phillips, together with William Allen and Luke Howard, took part in forming the Askesian Society.

Mr. Baker has been commissioned by more than 500 individuals and ensembles, including Josef Gingold, Ruggerio Ricci, Janos Starker, Harvey Phillips, the New York Philharmonic, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Beaux Arts Trio, Fisk jubilee Singers, Louisville Symphony, Ohio Chamber Orchestra, the Audubon String Quartet, and the International Horn Society.

In 1834 Phillips was elected a fellow of the Royal Society.

The trio also had a spring tour with Glen Phillips in a collaboration dubbed Mutual Admiration Society.

It was bought by a former admiral, Uriah Phillips, who left it in 1862 to the New York Historical Society, where it was miscatalogued as by Gilbert Stuart and remained inaccessible until the mistake was uncovered in 2006, after an enquiry by Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, a professor of art history at the University of Delaware.

In 1806, Murdoch presented to the Royal Society a paper entitled " Account of the Application of Gas from Coal to Economical Purposes " wherein he described his successful application of coal-gas to lighting the extensive establishment of Messrs. Phillips and Lea.

* Phillips Academy, the most prestigious secondary boarding school in the United States, is founded by Samuel Phillips Jr.

Phillips and his family founded Big River Broadcasting Corporation which owns and operates several radio stations in the Florence, Alabama, area, including WQLT-FM, WSBM, and WXFL.

Templeton was founded in 1886 when Chauney Hatch Phillips of the West Coast Land Company sent R. R.

" The Phillips Free Public Library of Phillipston was founded in 1860.

Among those soldiers was their regimental surgeon, Dr. Anthony Emery, a friend of Samuel Phillips, Jr., who in 1778 founded the Phillips Andover Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.

Russia was founded by Lewis Phillips, who purchased and plotted the land where the village now sits.

The community of Freedom was founded in 1832 by Jonathan Betz and Stephen Phillips, co-owners of a steamboat building business.

Out of this industry grew the Phillips Van Heusen company which was founded in 1881.

Frank Phillips founded Phillips Petroleum in Bartlesville in 1905 when the area was still Indian Territory.

Phillips Academy is the oldest incorporated academy in the United States, established in 1778 by Samuel Phillips, Jr. Phillips's uncle founded Phillips Exeter Academy three years later, starting a rivalry that has continued through the centuries.

Phillips Academy was founded during the American Revolution as an all-boys school in 1778 by Samuel Phillips, Jr., a member of the revolutionary war family, the Phillipses.

For 100 years of its history, Phillips Academy shared its campus with the Andover Theological Seminary, which was founded on Phillips Hill in 1807 by orthodox Calvinists who had fled Harvard College after it appointed a liberal Unitarian theologian to a professorship of divinity.

The bank also made two major acquisitions in 1986, first it purchased Phillips & Drew an established British brokerage and asset management firm, founded in 1895.

His son, Robert Todd Lincoln, was attending Phillips Exeter Academy, the college preparatory school founded in 1781 by Dr. John Phillips.

John Phillips was also the uncle of Samuel Phillips, Jr., who had founded Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1778.