“ PHILIPS, AMBROSE (c. 1675-1749) , English poet, was born in Shropshire of a Leicestershire family. He was educated at Shrewsbury school and St John's College, Cambridge, of which he became a fellow in 1699. He seems to have lived chiefly at Cambridge until he resigned his fellowship in 1708, and his pastorals probably belong to this period. He worked for Jacob Tonson the bookseller, and his Pastorals opened the 6th volume of Tonson's Miscellanies (1709) , which also contained the pastorals of Pope. Philips was a stanch Whig, and a friend of Steele and Addison. ”