Constantine Edmund Walter Phipps, 5th Marquess of Normanby (born 24 February 1954), is a British peer, novelist, poet, and entrepreneur.
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Early life and education
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.
Business interests
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 11,000-acre (45 km2) Warter Priory estate, near Pocklington, East Riding of Yorkshire, to businessman Malcolm Healey for a reported £48 million.