The Marquess of Normanby | |
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Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
In office 30 January 1994 –11 November 1999 Hereditary Peerage | |
Preceded by | The 4th Marquess of Normanby |
Succeeded by | Seat abolished |
Personal details | |
Born | 24 February 1954 |
Nationality | British |
Spouse(s) | Sophie McCormick Nicola Shulman |
Children | 4 |
Parent(s) | The 4th Marquess of Normanby Grania Guinness |
Education | Eton College |
Alma mater | Worcester College,Oxford (BA) City University London |
Occupation | Landowner,novelist,poet |
Constantine Edmund Walter Phipps,5th Marquess of Normanby (born 24 February 1954),is a British peer,novelist,poet,and entrepreneur.
Lord Normanby is the son of Oswald Phipps,4th Marquess of Normanby and The Honourable Grania Guinness,a member of the Guinness brewing family and a daughter of Walter Guinness,1st Baron Moyne. He was educated at Eton,Worcester College,Oxford and City University of London.
He succeeded to the marquessate and other titles upon the death of his father in 1994 and entered the House of Lords as a crossbencher. He lost his seat under the House of Lords Act 1999. [1]
Normanby lives in London and at Mulgrave Castle.
Normanby is the owner of the Mulgrave Estate and Mulgrave Castle,near Whitby,North Yorkshire. He is the founder of Mulgrave Properties LLP,a residential developer in Yorkshire. His indirect wealth includes a sizeable interest in property in West Vancouver,Canada,via British Pacific Properties Ltd of which he is a director. In 1998 he sold the 11,000-acre (45 km2) Warter Priory estate,near Pocklington,East Riding of Yorkshire,to businessman Malcolm Healey for a reported £48 million. [2]
Lord Normanby is chairman of the Normanby Charitable Trust which has a North Yorkshire focus. The trust has also supported Trinity College,Dublin,and Oxford University.
Before he was married,Normanby had a daughter with Sophie McCormick:
In 1990,Normanby married the journalist and author Nicola Shulman,daughter of theatre critic Milton Shulman and sister of British Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman. They have three children: [3] [4]
Normanby is the author of three novels under the name Constantine Phipps:Careful with the Sharks (1985),Among the Thin Ghosts (1989),and What You Want (2014).
Marquess of Normanby is a title that has been created twice,once in the Peerage of England and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The first creation came in 1694 in the Peerage of England in favour of John Sheffield,3rd Earl of Mulgrave. He was a notable Tory politician of the late Stuart period,who served under Queen Anne as Lord Privy Seal and Lord President of the Council. In 1703 this first Marquess of Normanby was further honoured when he was made Duke of Buckingham and Normanby. These titles became extinct on the death of the 2nd Duke in 1735.
Constantine Henry Phipps,1st Marquess of Normanby,,styled Viscount Normanby between 1812 and 1831 and known as The Earl of Mulgrave between 1831 and 1838,was a British Whig politician and author. He notably served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1835 to 1839 and as Home Secretary from 1839 to 1841 and was British Ambassador to France between 1846 and 1852.
George Augustus Constantine Phipps,2nd Marquess of Normanby,styled Viscount Normanby between 1831 and 1838 and Earl of Mulgrave between 1838 and 1863,was a British Liberal politician and colonial governor of Nova Scotia,Queensland,New Zealand and Victoria.
Duke of Buckingham,referring to Buckingham,is an extinct title that has been created several times in the peerages of England,Great Britain,and the United Kingdom. There were creations of double dukedoms of Buckingham and Normanby and of Buckingham and Chandos. The last holder of the dukedom died in 1889.
Duke of Buckingham and Normanby is a title in the Peerage of England. The full title was Duke of the County of Buckingham and of Normanby but in practice only Duke of Buckingham and Normanby was used. The dukedom was created in 1703 for John Sheffield,1st Marquess of Normanby KG,a notable Tory politician of the late Stuart period,who served under Queen Anne as Lord Privy Seal and Lord President of the Council. He had succeeded his father as 3rd Earl of Mulgrave in 1658 and been made Marquess of Normanby in 1694.
Constantine John Phipps,2nd Baron Mulgrave was an English explorer and officer in the Royal Navy. He served during the Seven Years' War and the American War of Independence,seeing action in a number of battles and engagements. Inheriting a title,he also went on to have a successful career in Parliament and occupied a number of political offices during his later years.
Marquess of the County of Bute,shortened in general usage to Marquess of Bute,is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1796 for John Stuart,4th Earl of Bute.
Marquess of Cholmondeley is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1815 for George Cholmondeley,4th Earl of Cholmondeley.
General Henry Phipps,1st Earl of Mulgrave,,styled The Honourable Henry Phipps until 1792 and known as The Lord Mulgrave from 1792 to 1812,was a British soldier and politician. He notably served as Foreign Secretary under William Pitt the Younger from 1805 to 1806.
The title Earl of Mulgrave has been created twice. The first time as a title in the Peerage of England and the second time as a Peerage of the United Kingdom.
David George Philip Cholmondeley,7th Marquess of Cholmondeley,,styled Viscount Malpas from birth until 1968,and subsequently Earl of Rocksavage until 1990,is a British peer and filmmaker who acted as Lord Great Chamberlain of the United Kingdom from 1990 to 2022.
Oswald Constantine John Phipps,4th Marquess of Normanby,,styled Earl of Mulgrave until 1932,was a British peer and philanthropist for blind people.
Constantine Phipps may refer to:
Mulgrave Castle refers to one of three structures on the same property in Lythe,near Whitby,North Yorkshire,England. One of these,known as the "old" or "ancient" castle,was by legend founded by Wada,a 6th-century ruler of Hälsingland. The second castle,caput of the feudal barony of Mulgrave,was of Norman construction and remained active until destroyed by order of Parliament in 1647. The third is a country house which was constructed by Lady Catherine Darnley and passed in 1718 by marriage into the Phipps family,when her daughter Lady Catherine Annesley married William Phipps. The Phipps family later held the titles of Baron Mulgrave,Earl of Mulgrave and Marquess of Normanby.
Frederick Oliver Robinson,2nd Marquess of Ripon,,styled Viscount Goderich between 1859 and 1871 and Earl de Grey between 1871 and 1909,was a British courtier and Liberal politician.
Constantine Phipps,1st Baron Mulgrave was an Irish peer. In 1767 he was created Baron Mulgrave,of New Ross in the County of Wexford,in the Peerage of Ireland.
Sir Constantine Henry Phipps (1656–1723) was an English-born lawyer who held the office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland. His term of office was marked by bitter political faction-fighting and he faced repeated calls for his removal. His descendants held the titles Earl of Mulgrave and Marquess of Normanby. Sir William Phips,the Governor of Massachusetts 1692–94,was his first cousin.
Constantine Charles Henry Phipps,3rd Marquess of Normanby DL was a British hereditary peer and Church of England clergyman who was a Canon of Windsor from 1891 to 1907.
Nicola Shulman Phipps,Marchioness of Normanby,is a British biographer,former model,and aristocrat. After her marriage in 1990 she initially became Countess of Mulgrave and since 1994 she has been known as Nicola Phipps,Marchioness of Normanby.
Catherine Sheffield,Duchess of Buckingham and Normanby,formerly Lady Catherine Darnley,was an illegitimate daughter of King James II of England,and was married to two English noblemen in succession.