Constantine Phipps, 5th Marquess of Normanby
| Constantine Phipps | |
|---|---|
| Alma mater |
Worcester College, Oxford City University London |
| Occupation | Landowner, novelist, poet |
| Spouse(s) | Sophie McCormick Nicola Shulman |
| Parent(s) |
Oswald Phipps Grania Guinness |
Constantine Edmund Walter Phipps, 5th Marquess of Normanby (born 24 February 1954) is a novelist, poet, landowner and entrepreneur.
Phipps is the son of Oswald Phipps, 4th Marquess of Normanby and the Hon. Grania Guinness, daughter of 1st Baron Moyne.
He was educated at Worcester College, Oxford and City University.
He is the author of three novels under the name Constantine Phipps: Careful with the Sharks (1985), Among the Thin Ghosts (1989), and What You Want (2014).
He is the owner of the Mulgrave Estate and Mulgrave Castle, near Whitby, in North Yorkshire. He is the founder of Mulgrave Properties LLP, a residential developer in Yorkshire. His indirect wealth includes a sizeable interest in property in West Vancouver, Canada, via British Pacific Properties Ltd of which he is a director. In 1998 he sold the 10,600-acre (43 km2) Warter Priory estate, near Pocklington, East Riding of Yorkshire, to businessman Malcolm Healey.
Phipps is chairman of the Normanby Charitable Trust which has a North Yorkshire focus. The trust has also supported Trinity College Dublin and Oxford University.
With Sophie McCormick he has a daughter, the actor Pandora McCormick (b. 12 December 1984).
In 1990, he married the journalist and author Nicola Shulman (daughter of theatre critic Milton Shulman and sister of British Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman) and had three children:
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