Pickering Phipps is the name of three related men – father, grandson and great grandson – who were residents of

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, England in the 19th and 20th centuries. The first began the Phipps Brewery in Towcester in 1801. The company survives today as

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Pickering Phipps I

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in 1801. In 1817, he opened a brewery in Bridge Street, Northampton, near to the

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and since 1973, the site of a large

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. He became mayor of Northampton in 1821. He had five sons, two of whom, Richard and Thomas, inherited the business, as later did a grandson and great grandson, both named Pickering Phipps.

Pickering Phipps II

Pickering Phipps II (1827–1890),Northampton Evening Telegraph, 1890, County Collection Reference -Central Public Library, Abington Street, Northampton, accessed 3 March 2010 son of Pickering Phipps I's third son Edward, also held tenure as mayor of Northampton between 1860 and 1866, a JP as well as most notably serving as the

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for

from 1874 to 1880 and for

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from 1881 to 1885. He built Collingtree Grange in 1875, which was since demolished, though the entrance lodges and gateway on the

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still survive.

Pickering Phipps III

Pickering Phipps III (1861–1937) became a director of the company in 1886. In 1888, the company built new offices at 8 Gold Street, Northampton. In 1891, the Church of St Matthew in Kettering Road, Northampton was built and paid for by the family in memory of Phipps II. This area of the town southeast of Kettering Road, known as "Phippsville" was built in the 1880s as a spacious, well-to-do suburb of the town. The large houses are now mostly converted into individual flats. Pickering IIIrd's Northampton home on Cliftonville Road is now the head offices and showroom of the Jeffery-West shoe company. He was

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in 1897. He sold the Collingtree Grange Estate to the Sears family in 1913.

Northampton pubs

Both Pickering Phipps II and his great local rival, the Liberal MP for Northampton

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,Charles Bradlaugh pub
/ref> have pubs named after them in Northampton. Included amongst these is the 'Sir Pickering Phipps' on Wellingborough Road named after Pickering Phipps II, who, despite the name, holds no known evidence of having ever been knighted.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Phipps, Pickering Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies English brewers UK MPs 1874–1880 People from Northampton High Sheriffs of Northamptonshire