Constantine Phipps, 5th Marquess of Normanby


Constantine Edmund Walter Phipps, 5th Marquess of Normanby, is a British peer, novelist, poet, and entrepreneur.

Early life

Lord Normanby is the son of the 4th Marquess of Normanby and The Hon. Grania Guinness, daughter of the 1st Baron Moyne.
He was educated at Eton College, Worcester College, Oxford and City University of London.

Publications

He is the author of three novels under the name Constantine Phipps: Careful with the Sharks, Among the Thin Ghosts, and What You Want.

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 Warter Priory estate, near Pocklington, East Riding of Yorkshire, to businessman Malcolm Healey.

Philanthropy

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.

Personal life

With Sophie McCormick he has a daughter, the actress Pandora McCormick.
In 1990, he married the journalist and author Nicola Shulman and had three children:
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.
Lord Normanby lives in London and at Mulgrave Castle.