Henry Carnegie Phipps

Henry Carnegie Phipps (May 11, 1879 – March 21, 1953)

Early life Phipps was born on May 11, 1879, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was the second son of Anne Childs (née Shaffer) Phipps (1850–1934), and businessman Henry Phipps Jr. His siblings included Amy Phipps, who married Frederick Guest (a grandson of the 7th Duke of Marlborough and Winston Churchill's first cousin); John Shaffer Phipps, married Margarita Celia Grace (a daughter of Irish merchant Michael P. Grace); Helen Margaret Phipps, who married Bradley Martin Jr. (brother-in-law of the 4th Earl of Craven); and Howard Phipps, who married Harriet Dyer Price (granddaughter of Gen. Alexander Dyer).

At Henry Phipps' death, his father, who was at one time the second-largest shareholder of Carnegie Steel and was a founder of Bessemer Trust, was worth $3,121,810 , according to transfer tax appraisal documents.

Phipps graduated from Yale University in 1902.

Phipp's daughter Barbara and her husband Stuart also became involved in the sport of thoroughbred racing and most notably bred and raced the ill-fated Ruffian, a U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee widely regarded as one of the greatest fillies in racing history.

Personal life In December 1907, Phipps married Gladys Livingston Mills (1883–1970) at her parents' home in Staatsburg, New York. Gladys was the daughter of famed financier Ogden Mills and the twin sister of Beatrice, who married Bernard Forbes, 8th Earl of Granard. Her brother Ogden was the 50th U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. As a wedding present, her father bought them a marble‐fronted townhouse at East 85th Street and Fifth Avenue. They also had a home Westbury, which reportedly cost $800,000, a home in Palm Beach, Florida, known as Heamaw. Barbara Phipps (1911–1987), who married Stuart Symington Janney Jr. who married Philip Dana Holden (1909–1973), an investment banker. Sonia Phipps (1919–2006), who married Count Hans Christoph von Seherr-Thoss (1912–1992).

Phipps died at his winter home in Palm Beach on March 21, 1953. His estate was left to his widow, who died in 1970.