Edmund Phipps


The Hon Edmund Phipps was a lawyer and author.

Career

Phipps was the third son of Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave and graduated from Trinity College, Oxford in 1828. In 1832 he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple, subsequently practicing law on the northern circuit before being appointed Recorder of Scarborough and later of Doncaster.

Literary works

In 1850 he published Memoirs of the Political and Literary Life of Robert Plumer Ward. Ward's first wife was Phipps' aunt.
On 15 May 1838, he married Maria Louisa, widow of the Hon Charles Francis Norton, daughter of Lieutenant-General Sir Colin Campbell. They had an only child, Constantine, subsequently a diplomat.