Sir Philip Shelbourne was a British lawyer and financier.

Shelbourne started his City

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 career when he gave up the Bar

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 to take up a partnership at NM Rothschild, and he, with Jacob Rothschild and Rodney Leach, formed a team in the late 1960s. He later became Master of the Curriers' Company which chimed with his considerable interest in antiques and works of art. He died unmarried.