Constantine Phipps, 5th Marquess of Normanby
| Constantine Phipps | |
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| Alma mater |
Worcester College, Oxford City University London |
| Occupation | Landowner, novelist, poet |
| Spouse(s) |
Sophie McCormick Nicola Shulman |
| Parent(s) |
Oswald Phipps Grania Guinness |
Constantine Edmund Walter Phipps, 5th Marquess of Normanby (born 24 February 1954) is a novelist, poet, landowner and entrepreneur.
Early life
Phipps is the son of Oswald Phipps, 4th Marquess of Normanby and the Hon. Grania Guinness, daughter of 1st Baron Moyne.
He was educated at Worcester College, Oxford and City University.
Publications
He 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).
Business Interests
He is the owner of the Mulgrave Estate and Mulgrave Castle, near Whitby, in 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 10,600-acre (43 km2) Warter Priory estate, near Pocklington, East Riding of Yorkshire, to businessman Malcolm Healey.
Philanthropy
Phipps is chairman of the Normanby Charitable Trust which has a North Yorkshire focus. The trust has also supported Trinity College Dublin and Oxford University.
Personal life
With Sophie McCormick he has a daughter, the actor Pandora McCormick (b. 12 December 1984).
In 1990, he married the journalist and author Nicola Shulman (daughter of theatre critic Milton Shulman and sister of British Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman) and had three children:[1]
- Lady Sibylla Victoria Evelyn Phipps (b. 6 August 1991)
- John Samuel Constantine Phipps, Earl of Mulgrave (b. 26 November 1994)
- Lord Thomas Henry Winston Phipps (b. 3 June 1997)
He succeeded his father in the Marquessate in 1994 and entered the House of Lords as a crossbencher. He lost his seat under the House of Lords Act 1999.[2]
In 2003, supermodel Elle Macpherson took out a lease on the 16,000-acre (65 km2) Mulgrave estate in North Yorkshire, considered one of England's finest shooting estates, including the right to live in the family's ancestral home, Mulgrave Castle, during the four-month shooting season.
Lord Normanby lives in London and at Mulgrave Castle.
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References
- ↑ "World of Nicola Shulman, writer". The Daily Telegraph. 7 April 2011. Retrieved 29 July 2012.
- ↑ "House of Lords". Retrieved 29 July 2012.
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Marquess of Normanby
- British Pacific Properties
- http://www.thepeerage.com/p1193.htm#i11926
| Peerage of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by Oswald Phipps |
Marquess of Normanby 1994–present |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
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| Preceded by The Most Hon. The Marquess of Ailsa |
Gentlemen | Succeeded by The Most Hon. The Marquess of Abergavenny |
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| Great Britain | ||
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*Current substantive marquesses, listed by precedence. **Cholmondeley ranks as Lord Great Chamberlain. | ||