Philip O. Papillon, Esq.
(1826-1899)
7 May 1861

Volume 3, page 210, sitting number 3532.

Philip Oxenden Papillon was born in 1826. According to the 1861 census, he was born at Barham in Kent. He gave as his profession 'M.P., Magistrate, Barrister not practicing, M.A. Oxford.' He was the Member of Parliament (Conservative) for Colchester from 1859 to 1865, hence the town's coat of arms on the plinth against which he's leaning.

On 16 September 1862 at Lincoln Cathedral he married Emily Caroline Garnier, daughter of the Very Reverend Thomas Garnier, Dean of Lincoln, and Lady Caroline Elizabeth Keppel. They lived at Crowhurst Park in Sussex and at Lexden Manor in Essex.

Philip Oxendon Papillon died, aged 73, on 16 August 1899 at Crowhurst Park, Battle, Sussex. He left an estate valued at £11,591.

A short obituary appeared in the Norfolk News (26 August 1899). 'The death has been announced during the last few days of Mr P. O. Papillon, of Crowhurst Park, Sussex. Mr Papillon, who had some property near Colchester, represented that town in Parliament from 1859 to 1865, when his public career was suddenly cut short through his being defeated by Mr J. Gurdon Rebow, uncle of Lord Cranworth and Sir W. Brampton Gurdon, M.P.  Mr Papillon was also connected with this part of the country in another way - he married a daughter of Dean Garnier, who was sometime chaplain in the House of Commons, and who was associated by marriage with the Albemarle family. Mr Papillon's colleague in the representation of Colchester from 1859 to 1865 was Mr Tavina John Miller, who has long since paid the date of nature. Mr Papillon never re-entered Parliament after his defeat in 1865, although he kept up his connection with Essex politics for some years later. The redistritbution of seats, the extension of the franchise to the agricultural labourers, and the appearance upon the scene of new aspirants for Parliamentary honours gradually led to his dropping out of sight.'