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Captain Chichester Phillips (1647–1728) was an MP for Askeaton, County Limerick, in the Irish Parliament and the owner of Drumcondra Castle, Dublin. Chichester Philips was born in Balasham, Cambridge, England in 1647 to Chichester Phillips and Susannah Warner. Capt. Phillips married Sarah Handcock (daughter of William Handcock MP for Westmeath) in Longford, August 17th, 1685. With Susannah they had 6 children daughters Abagail Phillips Green, and Jane Phillips Blackburne, and sons Thomas, George , Marmaduke and Charles. Two of their sons became Church of Ireland Clergymen, Rev. Charles Phillips became Rector of Kilcoleman, Co. Cork, and Rev. Marmaduke Phillips MA(TCD) DD, served in Iniscarra and Mathey, Co. Cork. In 1703 Capt. Phillips officially purchased Drumcondra Castle. Captain Philips leased On 28 October 1718, leased a plot of land on which Ballybough Cemetery was subsequently built, to the Ashkenazim