Constantine Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby

Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby

Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby KG GCB PC (born May 15, 1797 , † July 28, 1863 in London ) was a British politician of the Tories and most recently the Conservative Party , which was a member of the House of Commons for ten years and between Was governor of the colony of Jamaica in 1832 and 1834 .

After the death of his father in 1831 he became the 2nd Earl of Mulgrave member of the House of Lords . He also served in 1834 as Lord Privy Seal , from 1835 to 1839 as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland , in 1839 briefly as Minister of War and Colonies , and between 1839 and 1841, the interior minister . In 1838 he was also raised to Marquess of Normanby .

Life

Family background and member of the House of Commons

Phipps was the second of five children and the eldest son of General Henry Phipps and his wife Martha Sophia Maling. His father was foreign minister and first lord of the admiralty and was raised to hereditary nobility as 1st Baron Mulgrave in 1794 and thus a member of the House of Lords. In 1812, his father was also raised to 1st Earl of Mulgrave. His grandfather was Constantine Phipps, 1st Baron Mulgrave of New Ross . After attending the renowned Harrow School , he graduated from Trinity College at the University of Cambridge .

On June 22, 1818, the only 21-year-old Phipps was elected as a candidate of the conservative Tories for the first time to the House of Commons and initially represented the constituency of Scarborough until May 30, 1830 . He was re-elected to the House of Commons on February 11, 1822, and represented the Higham Ferrers constituency until June 20, 1826 and then the Malton constituency between June 9, 1826 and August 3, 1830 .

Member of the House of Lords, Governor of Jamaica and Lord Seal Keeper

After his father's death on April 7, 1831, he inherited the title of 2nd Viscount Normanby, of Normanby in the County of York and the subordinate title of 2nd Earl of Mulgrave, in the County of York, 2nd Baron Mulgrave, of Mulgrave in the County of York, 4th Baron Mulgrave of New Ross, in the County of York . With the inheritance of the title was also connected to membership in the House of Lords, to which he belonged until his death.

In 1832 Phipps succeeded Somerset Lowry-Corry, 2nd Earl Belmore as Governor of Jamaica and held this office for two years until his replacement by Howe Browne, 2nd Marquess of Sligo in 1834. In the meantime, the office was held by acting governors. In 1832 he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Guelph Order and he was also a member of the Privy Council .

On July 16, 1834 he was appointed by Prime Minister William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne as Lord Privy Seal in its first government and held this office until the end of Melbourne's tenure on November 17, 1834.

Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, War and Colonial Minister and Minister of the Interior

Phipps was then on April 29, 1835 as the successor of Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland and remained in this post until his replacement by Hugh Fortescue, Baron Fortescue on March 13, 1839. During this time he was also elevated to 1st Marquess of Normanby, in the County of York by a letters patent dated June 25, 1838 .

After finishing his activity in Ireland he was appointed Minister for War and Colonies (Secretary of State for War and Colonies) in February 1839 by Prime Minister Melbourne as the successor to Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg . He then took over as part of a government reshuffle on August 30, 1839 from John Russell the office of Home Secretary , while Russell in turn took over the office of Minister for War and Colonies from him.

Ambassador to France and envoy to Tuscany

On August 12, 1846, Phipps became ambassador to France, succeeding Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley . For his many years of service he became in 1847 the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath , and also in 1851 for Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter charged. He held the post of ambassador to France until 1852 and was then replaced by Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley.

Most recently he took over the office of envoy in Tuscany from Henry Bulwer in 1854 and remained in this post until he was replaced by Henry George Howard in 1858 .

His marriage to Maria Liddell, daughter of Thomas Henry Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth , on August 12, 1818 resulted in his only son, George Phipps , who was governor of New Zealand , Queensland , Nova Scotia and Victoria and after his death in 1863 inherited the title of 2nd Marquess of Normanby and its subordinate titles.

Web links

• Constantine Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby at Hansard (English)
• Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
• Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
• Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby on thepeerage.com , accessed August 13, 2015.

predecessor	Office	successor
New title created	Marquess of Normanby 1838-1863	George Phipps
George Cuthbert	Governor of Jamaica 1832–1834	Amos Norcott
George Howard	Lord Seal Keeper 1834	James Stuart-Wortley
Thomas Hamilton	Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1835-1839	Hugh Fortescue
John Russell	Home Secretary 1839-1841	James Graham
Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley	British ambassador to France 1846–1852	Henry Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley
Henry Bulwer	British envoy to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany 1854–1858	Henry Howard