However his father was bankrupted by the Great Depression and died in 1941, forcing Phillips to leave high school to look after his mother and aunt.

It was his mother who decided that Phillips should be sent to the Italia Conti Academy to receive elocution lessons in order to lose his natural cockney accent.

It proved to be an astute move and by the age of 14 Phillips was the family's main breadwinner, saving his mother from squalor.

She belonged to an experienced political dynasty: her father, Morgan Phillips, was a former coalminer who served as General Secretary of the Labour Party between 1944 and 1962 ; her mother, Norah Phillips was a former member of London County Council who became a life peer in 1964, serving as a government whip in the House of Lords, and as Lord Lieutenant of Greater London from 1978 to 1986.

Born to English father Leslie Norman Clark and Welsh mother Doris ( née Phillips ), both nurses at Long Grove Hospital, in Epsom, Surrey, England, she was christened Petula Sally Olwen Clark.

Except for the three and a half years he spent at Phillips, he lived for most of his life in a small, wooden-frame house on Utopia Parkway in a working-class area of Flushing, along with his mother and his brother Robert, whom cerebral palsy had rendered physically challenged .< ref name =" artinfo. com ">

Through her mother she is the granddaughter of former Labour Party General Secretary Morgan Phillips and Norah Phillips, Baroness Phillips.

The show centers on the Sinclair family: Earl Sinclair, the father ; Fran Sinclair, the mother ; Robbie Sinclair, the son ; Charlene Sinclair, the daughter ; Baby Sinclair, the baby ; and Grandmother Phillips.

Pop music singer Chynna Phillips played Kim MacAfee, Broadway veteran Sally Mayes played her mother, and George Wendt played her father Harry.

Phillips starred for several seasons on Knots Landing as Anne W. Matheson Sumner, playing the mother of future Desperate Housewives star Nicollette Sheridan ( a role which Phillips returned to for the 1997 TV movie Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac ).

She is mother of singer Chynna Phillips, Austin Hines, and Aron Wilson.

Anne Phillips, mother of John and Edward, was the sister of John Milton, the poet.

Another interview with Phil Donahue revealed that Phillips himself had sought out the family and discovered that her mother had also sexually abused her.

Paige ’ s mother ( and Mack ’ s first love ) Anne ( Michelle Phillips ) arrived in Knots Landing to be with her daughter, whom she ’ d believed dead.

Joseph Phillips ' mother died when he was young.

Chynna Phillips and her mother Michelle Phillips of the Mamas and Papas are the only mother / daughter combination to perform on separate songs that reached number one on the Billboard Charts.

It portrays Ann Romano, a divorced mother, played by Bonnie Franklin who moves to Indianapolis with her two teenage daughters Julie and Barbara Cooper ( Mackenzie Phillips, Valerie Bertinelli ) with Dwayne Schneider as their building superintendent ( Pat Harrington ).

Starring Bonnie Franklin, Valerie Bertinelli and Mackenzie Phillips as Ann Romano, Barbara Cooper and Julie Cooper, the series revolved around a family headed by a single mother ( Franklin ) that relocates to Indianapolis, where their new apartment building super, Dwayne Schneider ( Pat Harrington Jr .), befriends them.

Aside from the fact that business was slow this time of year and his one salesgirl was not the most enterprising, Mr. Phillips had no worries at all, and he said as much to Gun Matson, who sat across from him in civilian clothes, on a Jiffy-Couch-a-Bed, mauve velour, $79.89 nothing-down special!!

Wendell Phillips ( 1811-1884 ), from a prominent Massachusetts family, in his teens was converted under the preaching of Lyman Beecher.

The name was invented either by Lovecraft, or by Albert Baker, the Phillips ' family lawyer.

With the announcement in 2007 of the engagement of Peter Phillips to Autumn Kelly, a Roman Catholic and a Canadian, discussion about the Act of Settlement was somewhat reinvigorated.

( in fact, the Earl of St. Andrews had already lost his place in the line of succession when he married the Roman Catholic Canadian Sylvana Palma Tomaselli in 1988, but St. Andrews ' place in the line of succession was significantly lower than Phillips '.

In 2003, author Graham Phillips hypothetically concluded that the Ark was taken to Mount Sinai in the Valley of Edom by the Maccabees.

The first Manx translation of the Book of Common Prayer was made by Bishop John Phillips of Sodor and Man in 1610.

The name Carboniferous means " coal-bearing " and derives from the Latin words carbo ( coal ) and ferre ( to carry ), and was coined by geologists William Conybeare and William Phillips in 1822.

Peirce was born at 3 Phillips Place in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

A meeting chaired by Charles A. Phillips was held at the Pentagon on May 28 and 29 of 1959 ( exactly one year after the Zürich ALGOL 58 meeting ); there it was decided to set up three committees: short, intermediate and long range ( the last one was never actually formed ).

The Cowboys then finished an up-and-down 2006 season with a 9 – 7 record and a playoff appearance, but after a last second loss in the wild-card game against the Seattle Seahawks, Parcells retired and was succeeded by Wade Phillips.

After beginning the 2010 season at 1 – 7, Phillips was fired as head coach and was replaced by offensive coordinator Jason Garrett as the interim head coach.

On September 9, 2010, Judge Virginia A. Phillips ruled in Log Cabin Republicans v. United States of America that the ban on service by openly gay servicemembers was an unconstitutional violation of the First and Fifth Amendments.

Dennett attended Phillips Exeter Academy and spent one year at Wesleyan University before receiving his Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Harvard University in 1963, where he was a student of W. V. Quine.

DPNSS was an active ( and successful ) collaboration between PBX manufacturers and BT which started relatively slowly ( BT & Plessey ) but quickly snowballed with MITEL, GEC, Ericsson, Phillips and eventually Nortel all joining to create a powerful and feature rich protocol.

Distance education dates to at least as early as 1728, when " an advertisement in the Boston Gazette ... ' Caleb Phillips, Teacher of the new method of Short Hand " was seeking students for lessons to be sent weekly.

This was first done for lysozyme, an enzyme found in tears, saliva and egg whites that digests the coating of some bacteria ; the structure was solved by a group led by David Chilton Phillips and published in 1965.

Bogarde was later replaced by Michael Craig and Leslie Phillips, and the series continued until 1970.

Hayek was criticised by Liberal politicians Gladwyn Jebb and Andrew Phillips, who both claimed that the purpose of the pact was to discourage socialist legislation.

A very charming piece of work of a lighter kind was inspired by a question from his friend, Mrs Katherine Phillips ( the matchless Orinda ), asking How far is a dear and perfect friendship authorized by the principles of Christianity?

Researchers focused only on Whitehead include aspiring young author Stella Randolph inspired and informed by aviation buff Harvey Phillips in the 1930s, supported by prof John B. Crane's articles from 1936-1949.

The comet was suggested by Carl Sagan as the spectacular comet seen by the Chinese in 1486 BCE which, according to historical researcher Graham Phillips, might have inspired the rise of a number of monotheistic religions around the world.

After some conspiracy surfaced the project was titled SOLA-MI and described as a " concept band featuring Derek Webb, Josh Moore ( Co-producer of Webb ’ s Stockholm Syndrome and Feedback albums ), and Latifah Phillips ( of The Autumn Film and Page CXVI ), commissioned and inspired by Solomon Mente ’ s groundbreaking fictional narrative and film, NEXUS.

Phillips has been openly gay throughout her life and her lesbianism has inspired much of her material.

The project started in early 2004 by Inkscape developers Jon Phillips and Bryce Harrington to collect designs of flags from all around the world, having been inspired by the efforts to create a collection of flags created by users of vector graphics software Sodipodi.

His methods inspired the " Phillips school " of slavery studies between 1900 and 1950.

Johnson signed a $ 25 million contract with the Buffalo Bills the following season and was named starting quarterback by coach Wade Phillips but had a tumultuous, injury-ridden run with the Bills and a reputation for frequently being sacked that inspired the nickname " Robo-sack ".

Crockett was inspired to take up cricket umpiring at the age of 25 by the brave deeds of ‘ Dimboola Jim ’ Phillips who waged war on the chuckers of the 1890s, bowlers who threw the ball instead of bowling it.