Edmund Phipps

The Hon Edmund Phipps (7 December 1808 – 28 October 1857) 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.^[1] In 1832 he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple, subsequently practicing law on the northern circuit before being appointed Recorder of Scarbrough and later of Doncaster.^[2]

Literary works

In 1850 he published Memoirs of the Political and Literary Life of Robert Plumer Ward.^[1] Ward's first wife was Phipps' aunt.

• A Few Words on the Three Amateur Budgets of Cobden, Maggregor, and Wason, James Ridgway, London, 1849
• King René's Daughter: "a Danish Lyric Drama. By Henrik Herz. Rendered into English Verse, and illustrated by an Historical Sketch of the Fortunes and Misfortunes of Good King René", Richard Bentley, London, 1848^[3]
• The History of a £1000 Note or, Railway Ruin Reviewed, The New Monthly, 1848
• Cabet's Voyage en Icare, Quarterly Review, 1848
• The late census, Edinburgh Review, 1845

Personal life

On 15 May 1838, he married Maria Louisa, widow of the Hon Charles Norton, daughter of Lieutenant-General Sir Colin Campbell.^[4] They had an only child, Constantine, subsequently a diplomat.

References

• Stephens, Henry Morse; Lee, Stephen M (reviewer) (May 2008) [2004]. "Phipps, Edmund (1808–1857), rev.". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/22189. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)