SIR PHILIP CUNLIFFE-OWEN, C.B

SIR PHILIP CUNLIFFE-OWEN, K.C.M.G., C.B., C.I.E., though of good family, is essentially a self-made man, for his reputation, honours, and present position are all due, not to interest, but to his own abilities and exertions. The youngest son of Captain Charles Cunliffe-Owen, of the Royal Navy, and his wife Mary, only daughter of the late Sir Henry Blossett, at one time Chief Justice of Bengal, he was born in 1828. It was settled that he should follow his father's profession, and entered the navy at the early age of twelve.