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Jean-Baptiste Louis Philip was a Grenadian-born Trinidadian planter, and a member of the prominent free coloured (mixed-race) Philips family. He was the brother of Judith and Joachim Philip, the father of Jean-Baptiste and St Luce Philip, and probably the grandfather of Michel Maxwell Philip.

Early life
Louis Philip was the son on Jeanette, a formerly enslaved woman, and her husband Honore Philip, a French baker turned planter. Honore and Jeanette had eight children — Magdalen, Suzanne, Judith, Honore, Michel, Joachim, Nicholas-Regis and Jean-Baptiste Louis. Louis Philip and his brothers Honore and Joachim trained as carpenters while his youngest brother, Nicholas-Regis was a stone mason by training.

When Honore died in 1779 he left property to his children, his two brothers, François and Jean-Pierre, and his mother. When Jeanette died in 1788 she left more property to their children across Petit Martinique, Carriacou, and the main island of Grenada.