This posthumous honour was finally awarded to him by King Edward VII, and is recorded in the London Gazette of 15th January, 1907, and the Victoria Cross was presented to the elder of his two surviving brothers exactly 50 years after his death.

Gazetted: 21 October 1859 - Memo only.
15 January 1907 - VC awarded.
Other Medals: Indian Mutiny, clasp Delhi.
Location of Medals: Not publicly held.

Personal: Born in 1835, at Garendon Park, Leicester, being the second son of Ambrose Lisle March Phillipps de Lisle, JP, DL for Leicestershire, of Garendon Park and Grace-Dieu Manor, and of his wife, Laura Mary, daughter of the Honourable Thomas Clifford and his wife, Baronesss Philipina von Lüzow. Thomas Clifford was the fourth son of Hugh, fourth Lord Clifford of Chudleigh. The subject of this notice was educated at St Edmund's College, Old Hall Green, near Ware and at Oscott College, near Birmingham and having learned Hindustani in Paris, joined the Company's Army (11th Regt., Bengal Infantry) in India in 1855. He reached Meerut on 4 May 1857 and on the 10th of May, when the Mutiny broke out, his regiment joined it, and "Colonel Finnis was killed by his side; but he remained unhurt, though he had been called upon to read the address in Hindustani." He was given a commission in the Royal Army, in the 60th Rifles, as a reward for gallantry, the rigid rule of purchase of commissions notwithstanding. This was done on the application of Colonel Jones who made him his orderly officer. In the "Life and Letters of Ambrose Phillipps de Lisle" by E. S. Prucell and Edwin de Lisle, is quoted a letter from Dr. (afterwards Cardinal) Newman, written from the Oratory at Birmingham on 30 July 1857 in which he said: "We are praying here for your dear son. How anxious you must be." Everard was at that time fighting with the Queen's forces in the Indian Mutiny, and six weeks after this letter was written he was killed in the streets of Delhi, on the last day of the siege. The London Gazette of 21st October 1859, contained the following notice:

"Everard Aloysius Lisle Phillipps (deceased), 11th Regt., Bengal Infantry. Memorandum - Ensign Everard Aloysius Lisle Phillipps of the 11th Regt. Of Bengal Infantry, would have been recommended to Her Majesty for the decoration of the Victoria Cross had he survived, for many gallant deeds which he performed during the Siege of Delhi, during which he was wounded three times. At the assault of that city he captured the Water Bastion, with a small party of men; and was finally killed in the streets of Delhi on the 17th Sept."