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| November 26th | Elizabeth Philp Death) |
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Budock – born Elizabeth Philp (1827 – 1885) was a singer, teacher, composer and writer and the daughter of the, Falmouth – based, publisher, printer and painter, James Philp and Jane Gluvias, and the elder sister of the painter James George Philp (1816 – 1885). In 1836, her father moved the family to Bristol and then, ten years later, to London where she began to move in musical and dramatic circles and her father in artistic circles, exhibiting at the Royal Academy. She became a close friend and protégée of the American actress and singer Charlotte Saunders Cushman (renowned for being one of the first women to play Hamlet on stage) and through these connections she then studied harmony with the German composer Ferdinand Hiller in Cologne, becoming a close friend of the wife of Charles Dickens, Catherine Hogarth. Philip rose to prominence with the publication of her ‘How to Sing an English Ballad including sixty songs’ and with her songs and song cycles including those where she used poems by her friends including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Charles Kingsley (June 12th). Her brother, having studied lithography, painting and working as an architectural draughtsman emigrated to Melbourne in 1853 where he apparently became successful but suddenly vanished, in 1865, with a large amount of other peoples’ money, never to be seen again. Philip died in 1885 from liver disease but with her reputation assured.
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