PHIPPS, Augustus Frederick (4 son of first earl Mulgrave 1755–1831). b. The Admiralty, London 18 Oct. 1809; educ. Harrow 1820–7 and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1831; R. of Halesworth, Suffolk 1834–9; R. of Boxford 1839–53; R. of Euston with Fakenham Parva and Barnham 1851–82, all in Suffolk; rural dean of Blackburne 1862–83; chaplain in ordinary to the queen 18 June 1847 to death; hon. canon of Ely 1875 to death. d. 27 Eaton square, London 27 Jany. 1896.
PHIPPS, Sir Charles Beaumont (2 son of 1 earl Mulgrave 1755–1831). b. Mulgrave castle, Yorkshire 27 Dec. 1801; educ. Harrow 1813–18; ensign Scots fusilier guards 17 Aug. 1820, lieut. col. 26 May 1837, placed on h.p. 22 Jany. 1847; brevet colonel 11 Nov. 1851; secretary to his brother, first marquess of Normanby, when governor of Jamaica 1832–4; steward of his brother’s household when lord lieutenant of Ireland 1835–9; secretary to master general of the ordnance; equerry to the queen 1 Aug. 1846; private secretary to prince consort 1 Jany. 1847, and treasurer; keeper of the queen’s privy purse 10 Oct. 1849; treasurer and cofferer to prince of Wales 10 Oct 1849; receiver-general of duchy of Cornwall 26 May 1862 to death; one of the council to prince of Wales Jany. 1863 to death; secretary to prince of Wales as steward of Scotland 8 Feb. 1864; C.B. 6 Sept. 1853, K.C.B. 19 Jany. 1858; m. 25 June 1835 Margaret Anne, 2 dau. of Henry Bathurst, archdeacon of York, she was granted civil list pension of £150, 23 March 1866, and d. 13 April 1874. d. Ambassador’s court, St. James’s palace 24 Feb. 1866. bur. in catacombs of St. George’s chapel, Windsor 2 March. Full account of the presentation of a service of plate to the hon. col. C. B. Phipps in the town hall Scarbro’ Nov. 12, 1841, containing col. Phipps’ speech Scarbro’ 1841; G.M. April 1866 pp. 587–8; I.L.N. xlii 399, 400 (1862) portrait.
PHIPPS, Charles Paul (youngest son of Thomas Henry Hele Phipps 1771–1841). b. Leighton house, near Westbury, Wilts. 26 Sept. 1815; a merchant at Liverpool; M.P. Westbury 27 Feb. 1869 to 26 Jany. 1874; contested Westbury 3 Feb. 1874; sheriff of Wiltshire 1875. d. Chalcott, near Westbury 8 June 1880.
PHIPPS, Edmund (brother of sir C. B. Phipps 1801–66). b. the Admiralty, London 7 Dec. 1808; educ. Harrow 1819–25 and Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; barrister I.T. 15 June 1832, went northern circuit; recorder of Scarborough 1844 to death; Q.C. 23 June 1857; chief comr. of West Indian incumbered estates’ court Feb. 1857 to death; proprietor of a collection of Italian, Flemish and Dutch pictures; author of The monetary crisis, with a proposal for present relief and increased safety in future 1847; The adventure of a £1,000 note, or railway ruin reviewed 1848; King René’s daughter by H. Hertz rendered into English and a sketch of king René 1848, this was dramatised and acted at the theatre royal, Dublin 28 Nov. 1849; A few words on the three amateur budgets of Cobden, Macgregor and Wason 1849; Memoirs of the life of Robert Plumer Ward, 2 vols. 1850; A familiar dialogue on trusts, trustees, and trust societies between Mr. Arden and sir G. Ferrier 1854. d. 43 Wilton crescent, Belgrave sq. London 28 Oct. 1857. Waagen’s Treasures of art ii 226–29 (1854); G.M. iii 687 (1857).
PHIPPS, Edward James (brother of Charles Paul Phipps 1815–80). b. 1806; educ. Exeter coll. Oxf.,B.A. 1828; R. of Devizes 1833–53; R. of Stansfield, Suffolk 1853 to death; author of Short and easy answers, or a Sunday school catechism of the history and doctrines of the Old Testament 1832; A catechism on the Holy Scriptures 1850, 2 ed. 1860; The real question as to altar lights 1865. d. Stansfield 22 May 1884. bur. Stansfield 27 May.
PHIPPS, George Henry. b. 27 March 1807; with R. Stephenson and co. Newcastle-on-Tyne 1828; with R. Stephenson chalked out the sketch of the Rocket on the floor; employed at the Eyre Arms tavern, London on the drawings of London and Birmingham railway, made the Roade and Kilsby section; assistant to I. K. Brunel 2 years; manager for Alexander, Gordon and Co. in construction of beacons and lighthouses; again connected with R. Stephenson in examining wells in Liverpool and on works in Egypt; engineer of Western railway of Switzerland 1852; remodelled bridge over the Wear, Sunderland 1872; delivered a series of lectures at Chatham military school on practical engineering; M.I.C.E. 14 April 1840, Telford medal and premium 1864. d. 39 Stockwell park road, Surrey 11 Dec. 1888. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xcvi 330–3 (1889).
PHIPPS, Paul (3 son of Thomas Hele Phipps of Leighton house, Wiltshire). b. 18 Jany. 1789; cornet 1 dragoons 9 June 1804, major 19 Dec. 1826, placed on h.p. 27 Oct. 1829; served in the Peninsular war and at Waterloo; brevet lieut. col. 27 Oct. 1829; lieut. col. 3 dragoon guards 15 Sept. 1838, but sold out same day; K.H. 1836. d. Berrywood, Hampshire 22 Nov. 1858.
PHIPPS, Pickering (son of Edward Phipps, brewer, d. 1830). b. Bridge st. Northampton 14 March 1827; apprentice to a draper; senior partner in P. and R. Phipps, brewers, Northampton and Towcester, afterwards formed into a limited liability co.; member of Northampton town council 1834; mayor of Northampton 1858 and 1866; chairman of Northampton school board; M.P. Northampton 7 Feb. 1874 to 24 March 1880; contested Northampton 5 April 1880; M.P. Northamptonshire South 15 Feb. 1881 to 18 Nov. 1885; contested Northamptonshire, Midland division 2 Dec. 1885; purchased the Horton estate for £49,000 in 1887; president of the Farmers’ alliance. d. Collingtree Grange, Northamptonshire 14 Sept. 1890. bur. Collingtree 17 Sept. I.L.N. 27 Sept 1890 p. 390 portrait; Northampton Mercury 19 Sept. 1890 p. 6.
Note.—A church erected by his family at cost of £40,000 in Kingsley park, Northampton, was dedicated by the bishop of Peterborough as a memorial to him 21 Sept. 1893.
PHIPSON, Thomas Weatherley. b. 1807; practised as special pleader; barrister L.I. 10 June 1845, bencher 1862 to death; went Oxford circuit; Q.C. 5 Feb. 1862. d. Southampton 15 Jany. 1875. Solicitors’ Journal xix 239 (1875).