Richard Phelps
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Undersecretary of State for Lord Sandwich and later Lord Hillsborough.
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Richard Phelps (?1720s-?1771) is often referred to as among the more talented secretaries to both Lords Sandwich and Hillsborough in the years 1763-65, 1768, and 1770-71, Phelps had a taste for poetry and an unassuming character according to the memoirs of minister Sneyd Davis, DD published in 1817. He appears frequently but briefly in studies of the formation of the modern British State though little else is known of him. He is not to be confused with the famous portraitist of the same period.
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