Bound in deep blue cloth over boards; stamped in gold on front cover and spine; fore edge untrimmed.

357. PHILLIPS-WOLLEY-, ,Sir Clive . SONGS FROM A YOUNG MAN'S LAND. 1920.
Name on front end paper. £20.00

Phillipps-Wolley’s son Clive Jr. was killed in 1914, days after England declared war on Germany. Clive Jr. had been on board the H.M.S. Hogue, which was torpedoed and sunk with the H.M.S. Cressy and the H.M.S. Aboukir by the German submarine U-9, in one of Britain’s first major losses at sea. For his work with the Navy League and his consistent support of British values, Phillipps-Wolley was knighted, and became Sir Clive Phillipps-Wolley in 1915. Two years later he dedicated Songs from a Young Man’s Land to his dead son. The poems were about his longing to serve in the war, despite his deteriorating health.

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Clive Phillipps-Wolley was born Edward Clive Oldnall Long Phillips on April 3, 1853 in Wimborne, Dorset, England. Although he was merely the son of a public school master in a village, his family were distant relatives of Lord Robert Clive who had been knighted after he had helped England colonize India in the 18th century. Phillips’ father has been born in India and his grandfather had been killed in fighting there. In 1757, Edward Clive Phillips inherited his great-grandfather’s estate. He dropped the first name Edward in favour of Clive and changed his last name to Phillipps-Wolley, to resurrect the more prestigious Wolley name. Clive Phillipps-Wolley joined a country club, took up the study of law and married 16-year-old Janie Fenwick. He taught musketry and practiced law for less than a year before turning to writing.

first came to British Columbia in 1884 via the Northern Pacific Railroad. He returned in 1886 on a game hunting expedition, described in A Sportsman's Eden (1888), after which he settled in Victoria in 1890.

Warning of an expanding German navy, Phillipps-Wolley began urging Canada to build warships for England in 1908. He joined the Navy League in 1910, and toured Ontario to advocate his cause. At his own expense, he published a 70-page pamphlet containing his speeches, entitled The Canadian Naval Question.

On July 8, 1918, at the age of 65, Phillipps-Wolley died of a cerebral hemorrhaege. At the time of his death, Sir Clive Phillipps-Wolley’s estate was valued at $174,000.