Sir Edmund Constantine Henry Phipps, (15 March 1840 – 15 March 1911) was a British diplomat.

Career

Phipps was educated at

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and later entered the

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in 1858.PHIPPS, Sir Edmund Constantine Henry
Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007, accessed 2 April 2012 In 1873, he was Third Secretary in

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and was requested by the Ambassador, George Buckley Mathew, to report on the condition of British emigrants in Brazil. In 1881, Phipps was promoted from the rank of Second Secretary to be

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with the rank of Secretary of Legation, and in 1885 was posted to be Secretary of the Embassy at

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. In 1892 he was appointed Secretary of the Embassy at

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and in the following year promoted to be

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under the Ambassador to France, the Marquess of Dufferin and Ava. While in Paris, Phipps was a British delegate to an international conference on the prevention of cholera, in 1894. He was made a

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in the Queen's

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. In the same year he was appointed

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. In 1900 Phipps was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of His Majesty the King of the Belgians. He was knighted as a Knight Commander of the

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(KCMG) in the

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list "for services in connection with the Sugar Conference", and invested as such by King

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on 24 October 1902. This was the Brussels Sugar Convention of 5 March 1902, which was controversial in Britain and was opposed by

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amongst others. Phipps retired from the Diplomatic Service in 1906 and died in 1911.

Personal life

Constantine Phipps was the only son of the Hon

Edmund Phipps Hon. Edmund Phipps (7 December 1808 – 28 October 1857) was a lawyer and author. __NOTOC__ 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 ...

and Maria-Louisa Phipps (née Campbell); this being her second marriage, after the death of her first husband,

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. Phipps was the grandson of

Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave General Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave, (14 February 17557 April 1831), styled The Honourable Henry Phipps until 1792 and known as The Lord Mulgrave from 1792 to 1812, was a British soldier and politician. He notably served as Foreign Secr ...

. His maternal grandfather was Lieutenant General Sir

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. In 1863 he married Maria Miller Mundy, daughter of

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, of Shipley Hall, Derbyshire, and his wife Maria Jane, daughter of Rear-Admiral Sir

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. Their son

Eric Phipps Sir Eric Clare Edmund Phipps (27 October 1875 – 13 August 1945) was a British diplomat. Family Phipps was the son of Sir Constantine Phipps, later British Ambassador to Belgium, and his wife, Maria Jane (née Miller Mundy). Henry Phipps, ...

became a diplomat in his turn, serving in the 1930s as ambassador successively to Berlin and Paris. Lady (Maria) Phipps died on 30 August 1902, and in 1904 he married Alexandra Wassilewna, widow of Gomez Brandão of Rio de Janeiro, who died in 1954.Burke's Peerage, 2004 edition, p2921

References

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