Constantine Phipps, 5th Marquess of Normanby

Constantine Phipps
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.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Constantine Phipps, 5th Marquess of Normanby

16. Constantine Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby               8. George Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby                       17. The Hon. Maria Liddell               4. Constantine Phipps, 3rd Marquess of Normanby                             18. Robert Russell               9. Laura Russell                       2. Oswald Phipps, 4th Marquess of Normanby                                   10. Johnston Forster                       5. Gertrude Forster                             1. Constantine Phipps, 5th Marquess of Normanby                                         24. Sir Benjamin Guinness, 1st Baronet               12. Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh                       25. Elizabeth Guinness               6. Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne                             26. Richard Guinness               13. Adelaide Guinness                       27. Katherine Jenkinson               3. The Hon. Grania Guinness                                   28. David Erskine, 13th Earl of Buchan               14. Shipley Erskine, 14th Earl of Buchan                       29. Agnes Smith               7. Lady Evelyn Erskine                             30. Jules Sartoris               15. Rosalie Sartoris

References

1. "World of Nicola Shulman, writer". The Daily Telegraph. 7 April 2011. Retrieved 29 July 2012.
2. "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