Edmund Phipps
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Hon. Edmund Phipps (7 December 1808 – 28 October 1857) was a lawyer and author.
Career
Phipps was the third son of Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave and graduated from Trinity College, Oxford in 1828. In 1832 he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple, subsequently practicing law on the northern circuit before being appointed Recorder of Scarborough and later of Doncaster.[http://www.djo.org.uk/indexes/authors/edmund-phipps.html Dickens Journal Online]
Literary works
In 1850 he published Memoirs of the Political and Literary Life of Robert Plumer Ward.{{cite ODNB |last=Stephens |first=Henry Morse |title=Phipps, Edmund (1808–1857), rev. |first2=Stephen M (reviewer) |last2=Lee |origyear=2004 |date=May 2008 |id=22189}} Ward's first wife was Phipps' aunt.
- A Few Words on the Three Amateur Budgets of Cobden, Maggregor, and Wason, James Ridgway, London, 1849
- King René's Daughter: "a Danish Lyric Drama. By Henrik Herz. Rendered into English Verse, and illustrated by an Historical Sketch of the Fortunes and Misfortunes of Good King René", Richard Bentley, London, 1848Lohrli, Anne. [http://www.djo.org.uk/indexes/authors/edmund-phipps.html "Edmund Phipps"], Dickens Journal Online, accessed 18 September 2021
- The History of a £1000 Note or, Railway Ruin Reviewed, The New Monthly, 1848
- Cabet's Voyage en Icare, Quarterly Review, 1848
- The late census, Edinburgh Review, 1845
Personal life
On 15 May 1838, he married Maria Louisa, widow of the Hon Charles Francis Norton, daughter of Lieutenant-General Sir Colin Campbell.Burke's Peerage, 2004 edition, p2921 They had an only child, Constantine, subsequently a diplomat.
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Category:Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford
Category:Younger sons of earls
Category:19th-century English writers