Phineas Phillips

Phineas Pillips was a Polish merchant who flourished about 1775. He held the position of chief of the Jewish community at Krotoszyn, at that time a fief of the princes of Thurn and Taxis who held Phillips in considerable esteem and entrusted him with personal commissions.

Phillips attended important European fairs, and especially those in Leipzig. In 1775 he went to England and settled in London for some time from where he carried on an extensive business in indigo and gum.