Constantine Phipps, 5th Marquess of Normanby

Constantine Edmund Walter Phipps, 5th Marquess of Normanby (born 24 February 1954), is a British peer, novelist, poet, and entrepreneur.

The Most Honourable The Marquess of Normanby
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
as a hereditary peer 30 January 1994 – 11 November 1999
Preceded by	The 4th Marquess of Normanby
Succeeded by	Seat abolished [a]
Personal details
Born	(1954-02-24) 24 February 1954 (age 71)
Nationality	British
Spouse(s)	Sophie McCormick Nicola Shulman
Children	4
Parent(s)	The 4th Marquess of Normanby Grania Guinness
Education	Eton College
Alma mater	Worcester College, Oxford (BA) City University London
Occupation	Landowner, novelist, poet

Early life and education

Lord Normanby is the son of Oswald Phipps, 4th Marquess of Normanby and the Hon. Grania Guinness, a member of the Guinness brewing family and a daughter of Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne. He was educated at Eton, Worcester College, Oxford, and City University of London.

He succeeded to the marquessate and other titles upon the death of his father in 1994 and entered the House of Lords as a crossbencher. He lost his seat under the House of Lords Act 1999.^[1]

Normanby lives in London and at Mulgrave Castle.

Business interests

Normanby is the owner of the Mulgrave Estate and Mulgrave Castle, near Whitby, 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 11,000-acre (45 km²) Warter Priory estate, near Pocklington, East Riding of Yorkshire, to businessman Malcolm Healey for a reported £48 million.^[2]

Philanthropy

Lord Normanby is chairman of the Normanby Charitable Trust which has a North Yorkshire focus. The trust has also supported Trinity College, Dublin, and Oxford University.

Marriage and children

Before he was married, Normanby had a daughter with Sophie McCormick:^[3]

• Pandora McCormick (born 12 December 1984), an actress.

In 1990, Normanby married the journalist and author Nicola Shulman, daughter of theatre critic Milton Shulman and sister of British Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman. They have three children:^[4][5]

• Lady Sibylla Victoria Evelyn Phipps (born 6 August 1992)
• John Samuel Constantine Phipps, Earl of Mulgrave (born 26 November 1994), heir apparent to the marquessate and other titles.
• Lord Thomas Henry Winston Phipps (born 3 June 1997)

Publications

Normanby 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).

Notes

1. Under the House of Lords Act 1999.