HALLIWELL-PHILLIPS, JAMES ORCHARD (1820 1889), English Shakespearian scholar, son of Thomas Halli well, was born in London June 21, 1820 and educated privately and at Jesus college, Cambridge. In 1839 he edited Sir John Man deville's Travels; in 1842 published an Account of the European MSS. in the Chetham Library, besides a newly discovered metricalMss. in the Chetham Library, besides a newly discovered metrical romance of the 15th century (Torrent of Portugal). He became best known, however, as a Shakespearian editor and collector.
In 1848 he brought out his Life of Shakespeare, which passed through several editions; in 1853-65 a sumptuous edition, limited to 150 copies, of Shakespeare in folio, with full critical notes; in 1863 a Calendar of the Records at Stratford-on-Avon; in 1864 a History of New Place. After 1870 he devoted his attention to elucidating Shakespeare's life. He exhausted the available rec ords in his Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare (privately print ed 1881, other eds. 1882, etc.). He was a prime mover in the purchase of New Place for the corporation of Stratf ord-on Avon, and in the formation there of the Shakespeare museum. His house, Hollingbury Copse, near Brighton, was full of rare and curious works, many of which he gave to the Chetham library, Manchester, to the town library of Penzance, to the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, and to the library of Edinburgh univer sity. He died on Jan. 3, 1889. Halliwell-Phillips' works are very numerous. He edited many early English and Elizabethan works for the Percy, Camden and Shake speare Societies, and prepared the valuable Dictionary of Old English Plays