Biography:
Rowland Miles Philipson Philipson-Stow was born 23 June 1893, the 5th son of Sir Frederic and Lady Philipson-Stow. His two brothers also came to Winchester.
Rowland came to Winchester in September 1907 and was in I House, Turner's, under Revd AG Bather.
He left Winchester in the summer of 1911 for Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained his BA. On the outbreak of war he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant of the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment and served in France and Salonica, and later in East Africa with the King's African Rifles.
Rowland contracted malaria during he war and this led to his death on 13 September 1920.
Several other Wykehamists who died of wounds or injuries after the end of the war are commemorated in War Cloister - not so, Philipson-Stow.