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Constantine Phipps, 5th Marquess of Normanby

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The Marquess of Normanby
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
30 January 1994 – 11 November 1999
Hereditary Peerage
Preceded byThe 4th Marquess of Normanby
Succeeded bySeat abolished
Personal details
Born (1954-02-24) 24 February 1954 (age 70)
NationalityBritish
Spouse(s)Sophie McCormick
Nicola Shulman
Children4
Parent(s)The 4th Marquess of Normanby
Grania Guinness
EducationEton College
Alma materWorcester College, Oxford (BA)
City University London
OccupationLandowner, novelist, poet

Constantine Edmund Walter Phipps, 5th Marquess of Normanby (born 24 February 1954), is a British peer, novelist, poet, and entrepreneur.

Early life and education

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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.

Business interests

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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]

Philanthropy

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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.

Marriage and children

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Before he was married, Normanby had a daughter with Sophie McCormick:[3]

  • Pandora McCormick (born 12 December 1984), an actress.

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:[4][5]

  • Lady Sibylla Victoria Evelyn Phipps (born 6 August 1992)
  • John Samuel Constantine Phipps, Earl of Mulgrave (born 26 November 1994), heir apparent to the marquessate and other titles.
  • Lord Thomas Henry Winston Phipps (born 3 June 1997)

Publications

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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).

References

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  1. ^ "House of Lords". Retrieved 29 July 2012.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "Villagers welcome tycoon new owner". York Press. 4 June 1998. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
  3. ^ "Sophie McCormick, portrait painter who lived a bohemian life in Dublin and Kenya – obituary". The Daily Telegraph. 20 May 2020. Retrieved 10 April 2024.
  4. ^ "World of Nicola Shulman, writer". The Daily Telegraph. 7 April 2011. Retrieved 29 July 2012.
  5. ^ Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes. Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999
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Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Marquess of Normanby
1994–present
Incumbent
Orders of precedence in the United Kingdom
Preceded by
The Most Hon. The Marquess of Ailsa
Gentlemen Succeeded by