Constantine Phipps, 5th Marquess of Normanby

Who is Constantine Phipps, 5th Marquess of Normanby?

Constantine Edmund Walter Phipps, 5th Marquess of Normanby is the son of Oswald Phipps, 4th Marquess of Normanby and Grania Guinness. He was educated at Worcester College, Oxford.

Lord Normanby lives at Mulgrave Castle.

In 1990, he married Nicola Shulman and had three children:

Lady Sibylla Victoria Evelyn Phipps

John Samuel Constantine Phipps, Earl of Mulgrave

Lord Thomas Henry Winston Phipps

He succeeded his father in the Marquessate in 1994 and entered the House of Lords as a crossbencher. He lost his seat under the House of Lords Act 1999.

In 1998 he sold the 10,600-acre Warter Priory estate, near Pocklington, East Riding of Yorkshire, to businessman Malcolm Healey for £48 million. In 2003, supermodel Elle Macpherson took out a lease on the 16,000-acre Mulgrave estate in North Yorkshire, considered one of England's finest shooting estates, including the right to live in the family's ancestral home, Mulgrave Castle, during the four-month shooting season.

The 5th Marquess was ranked 279th in the Sunday Times Rich List 2004, with an estimated wealth of £143m. His indirect wealth includes a sizeable interest in property in West Vancouver, Canada, via British Pacific Properties Ltd.