Constantine Phipps, 5th Marquess of Normanby

Constantine Phipps, 5th Marquess of Normanby studied at Eton College, Worcester College and City, University of London. The recorded working language is English. Residence is recorded at Mulgrave Castle and London. Positions recorded include member of the House of Lords.

• Honorific Prefix — The Most Honourable • Office — Member of the House of Lords • Status — Lord Temporal • Term Label — as a hereditary peer • Term Start — 30 January 1994 • Term End — 11 November 1999 • Predecessor — The 4th Marquess of Normanby • Successor — Seat abolished • Name — The Marquess of Normanby • Born — 24 February 1954 • Education — Eton College • Alma Mater — Worcester College, Oxford (BA) City University London • Occupation — Landowner, novelist, poet • Spouse — Sophie McCormick Nicola Shulman • Children — 4 • Parents — The 4th Marquess of Normanby Grania Guinness

Lord Normanby is the son of Oswald Phipps, 4th Marquess of Normanby and the Hon. Grania Guinness, a member of the Guinness brewing family and a daughter of Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne. He was educated at Eton, Worcester College, Oxford, and City University of London. He succeeded to the marquessate and other titles upon the death of his father in 1994 and entered the House of Lords as a crossbencher. He lost his seat under the House of Lords Act 1999. Normanby lives in London and at Mulgrave Castle.

Normanby is the owner of the Mulgrave Estate and Mulgrave Castle, near Whitby, North Yorkshire. He is the founder of Mulgrave Properties LLP, a residential developer in Yorkshire. His indirect wealth includes a sizeable interest in property in West Vancouver, Canada, via British Pacific Properties Ltd of which he is a director. In 1998, he sold the 11000 acre Warter Priory estate, near Pocklington, East Riding of Yorkshire, to businessman Malcolm Healey for a reported £48 million.

Lord Normanby is chairman of the Normanby Charitable Trust which has a North Yorkshire focus. The trust has also supported Trinity College, Dublin, and Oxford University.

Before he was married, Normanby had a daughter with Sophie McCormick: • Pandora McCormick (born 12 December 1984), an actress. In 1990, Normanby married the journalist and author Nicola Shulman, daughter of theatre critic Milton Shulman and sister of British Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman. They have three children: • Lady Sibylla Victoria Evelyn Phipps (born 6 August 1992) • John Samuel Constantine Phipps, Earl of Mulgrave (born 26 November 1994), heir apparent to the marquessate and other titles. • Lord Thomas Henry Winston Phipps (born 3 June 1997)