Edmund Phipps

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.

Literary works

In 1850 he published Memoirs of the Political and Literary Life of Robert Plumer Ward. 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 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. They had an only child, Constantine, subsequently a diplomat.