Biss Philip
Biss Philip
an English prelate of the early part of the 17th century, came from a worshipful family of Spargrave, Somersetshire. He was trained at Magdalen College, Oxford, of which he became fellow and doctor of divinity, and was preferred archdeacon of Taunton. He was a learned man and at his death bequeathed his library to Wadham College, Oxford, then onewly founded. He died about 1614. See Fuller, Worthies of England (ed. Nuttall), 3, 107.