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 Scarborough 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 Francis Norton, daughter of Lieutenant-General Sir Colin Campbell.[4] They had an only child, Constantine, subsequently a diplomat.
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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.)
- Stephens 1886.
- Dickens Journal Online
- Dickens Journal Online
- Burke's Peerage, 2004 edition, p2921
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