| Authorised form of name | Phipps; Constantine John (1744 - 1792); Baron Mulgrave |
| Dates | 1744 - 1792 |
| Date of birth | May 1744 |
| Place of death | Liege |
| Date of death | 10 October 1792 |
| Activity | Career:
1760, he entered the navy. Served at the reduction of Martinique and St Lucia; on 17 March 1762 promoted to Lieutenant and took part in the reduction of Havana. In 1768 he was elected Member of Parliament for Lincoln, and from 1777 to 1784 Member of Parliament for Huntingdon, as well as one of the lords of the Admiralty. In 1773 he commanded the 'Racehorse', which with the 'Carcass' was fitted out to attempt to discover a northern route to India, although the expedition only sailed to the north of Spitzbergen because the sea was absolutely blocked with ice. In 1784 he became Member of Parliament for Newark on Trent. In the same year he was appointed joint paymaster general of the forces, a Commissioner for the Affairs of India, and one of the lords of 'Trades and Plantations'. He was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and instrumental in founding the 'Society for the Improvement of Naval Architecture'.
Honours:
Baron 1790
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 12/12/1771 |
| RSActivity | Royal Society roles:
VP 1778-1792 |
| Relationships | Brother of Augustus Phipps (FRS 1812); succeeded to the Irish title of 2nd Baron Mulgrave in 1775, 15 years before being created a peer of Great Britain under the same title in 1790, known as Baron Mulgrave. he married, in 1767, Anne Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Nathaniel Cholmeley of Howsham in Yorkshire |
| PublishedWorks | His diary was printed as 'A Journal of the Voyage to the North Pole' 1773. Also published 'A Voyage towards the North Pole' 1774 |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Journal Book meeting of 12 December 1771 records that ' The Honourable Constantine Phipps, Son to Lord Mulgrave of the Kingdom of Ireland, was proposed as a Member by Joseph Banks Esquire and being balloted for immediately according to the proviso in the Statute was chosen a Member of the Society, and having further paid his admission fee, and the sum of seventy six guineas in lieu of contributions, he also signed the obligation in the Charter Book and was admitted Fellow'.
References:
Averil M Lysaght, 'Joseph Banks at Skara Brae and Stennis, Orkney, 1772' in NR 1973-4 vol 28 pp 221-234
L B Glyn, 'Israel Lyons: a short but starry career. The life of an eighteenth-century Jewish botanist and astronomer' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 275-305 |
| Code | NA2654 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| CB/2/165 | Copy of a letter from Charles Blagden to Lord Mulgrave | 17 June 1788 |
| CB/2/24 | Copy of a letter from Charles Blagden to Lord Mulgrave | |
| CB/2/729 | Copy of a letter from Charles Blagden to Lord Mulgrave | 1 November 1785 |
| CB/2/737 | Copy of a letter from Charles Blagden to Lord Mulgrave | 19 November 1785 |
| CB/2/336 | Copy of a letter from Charles Blagden to Lord Mulgrave | 22 June 1787 |
| CB/1/5/168 | Letter from C J Phipps to Charles Blagden, King's Road | nd |
| CB/2/340 | Copy of a letter from Charles Blagden to Lord Mulgrave | 11 July 1787 |
| CB/2/17 | Copy of a letter from Charles Blagden to Lord Mulgrave | 2 August 1786 |
| CB/1/5/183 | Letter from C J Phipps, Bath to Charles Blagden | 20 May 1780 |
| CB/1/5/213 | Letter from C J Phipps to Charles Blagden | [late 18th century] |
| CB/1/5/208 | Letter from C J Phipps to Charles Blagden | 9 October [c1774?] |
| CB/2/356 | Copy of a letter from Charles Blagden to Lord Mulgrave | 31 August 1787 |
| CB/1/5/196 | Letter from C J Phipps, Bath to Charles Blagden | 15 May 1782 |
| CB/1/5/167 | Letter from C J Phipps [afterwards 1st Baron Mulgrave],Old Windsor to Charles Blagden, Grays Inn | 21 October 1774 |
| CB/1/5/215 | Letter from C J Phipps to Charles Blagden, opposite Sackville Street, Piccadilly | 27 October [1775?] |
| CB/1/5/210 | Letter from C J Phipps, Torbay to Charles Blagden | 26 September [1780] |
| CB/1/5/202 | Letter from C J Phipps, Soho Square to Charles Blagden, King's Road, Bedford Row | 2 April 1784 |
| CB/1/5/201 | Letter from C J Phipps, Mulgrave Hall to Charles Blagden | 14 November 1783 |
| CB/1/5/217 | Letter from C J Phipps to Charles Blagden, opposite Sackville Street, Piccadilly | [1775?] |
| CB/1/5/197 | Letter from C J Phipps, Torbay to Charles Blagden | 7 July 1782 |
| CB/1/5/185 | Letter from C J Phipps, Torbay to Charles Blagden | 13 September 1780 |
| CB/1/5/216 | Letter from C J Phipps to Charles Blagden | [1780?] |
| CB/1/5/174 | Letter from C J Phipps, Mulgrave Hall to Charles Blagden | 3 October 1774 |
| CB/1/5/198 | Letter from C J Phipps, Torbay to Charles Blagden | 12 August 1782 |
| CB/1/5/214 | Letter from C J Phipps, Portsmouth to Charles Blagden | [late 18th century] |
| CB/1/5/178 | Letter from C J Phipps, Mulgrave Hall to Charles Blagden | 23 September 1775 |
| CB/1/5/192 | Letter from C J Phipps, at sea to Charles Blagden, Gray's Inn, London | 13 March 1781 |
| CB/1/5/175 | Letter from C J Phipps, Mulgrave Hall to Charles Blagden, Grays Inn, London | 15 October 1774 |
| CB/1/5/212 | Letter from C J Phipps to Charles Blagden, King's Road | [1770s-1780s?] |
| CB/1/5/195 | Letter from C J Phipps, Bath to Charles Blagden | 12 May 1782 |
| CB/1/5/209 | Letter from C J Phipps to Charles Blagden | [c1774?] |
| CB/1/5/177 | Letter from C J Phipps, Newcastle to Charles Blagden, opposite Sackville Street, Piccadilly | 12 September 1775 |
| CB/1/5/186 | Copy of a letter from C J Phipps, Portsmouth to Charles Blagden | 15 January 1781 |
| CB/1/5/203 | Letter from C J Phipps, Harley Street to Charles Blagden | 11 November 1784 |
| CB/1/5/189 | Letter from C J Phipps, Portsmouth to Charles Blagden | 18 February 1781 |
| CB/1/5/169 | Letter from C J Phipps, Mulgrave Hall to Charles Blagden, opposite Sackville Street, Piccadilly, London | 1 September 1774 |
| CB/1/5/207 | Letter from C J Phipps, Mulgrave Hall to Charles Blagden | 20 August[1774] |
| CB/1/5/170 | Letter from C J Phipps, Mulgrave Hall to Charles Blagden | 12 September 1774 |
| CB/1/5/180 | Letter from C J Phipps, Bath to Charles Blagden | 1 March 1780 |
| CB/1/5/182 | Letter from C J Phipps, Bath to Charles Blagden | 2 April 1780 |
| CB/1/5/191 | Letter from C J Phipps, Portsmouth to Charles Blagden | 5 March 1781 |
| CB/2/65 | Copy of a letter from Charles Blagden to Lord Mulgrave | |
| CB/1/5/206 | Letter from C J Phipps, Mulgrave Hall to Charles Blagden | 13 August [c1774] |
| CB/1/5/205 | Letter from C J Phipps, Newcastle to Charles Blagden, Gray's Inn, London | 10 July [c1780] |
| CB/1/5/187 | Letter from C J Phipps, Portsmouth to Charles Blagden | 19 January 1781 |
| CB/1/5/200 | Letter from C J Phipps, Mulgrave Hall to Charles Blagden, King's Road, London | 11 November 1783 |
| CB/2/71 | Copy of a letter from Charles Blagden to Lord Mulgrave | |
| CB/1/5/176 | Letter from C J Phipps, Newcastle to Charles Blagden | 17 October 1774 |
| CB/1/5/172 | Letter from C J Phipps, Mulgrave Hall to Charles Blagden | 24 September 1774 |
| CB/1/5/179 | Letter from C J Phipps, Harley Street to Charles Blagden | 11 April 1779 |
| CB/1/5/193 | Letter from C J Phipps, at sea to Charles Blagden | 10 April 1781 |
| CB/1/5/171 | Letter from C J Phipps, Mulgrave Hall to Charles Blagden | 16 September 1774 |
| CB/1/5/173 | Letter from C J Phipps, Mulgrave Hall to Charles Blagden, Grays Inn, London | 28-30 September 1774 |
| CB/1/5/211 | Summary of a letter from Charles Blagden to C J Phipps | 27 September 1780 |
| CB/1/5/190 | Letter from C J Phipps, Portsmouth to Charles Blagden | 22 February 1781 |
| CB/1/5/181 | Letter from C J Phipps, Bath to Charles Blagden | 26 March 1780 |
| IM/003578 | Phipps, Constantine John, 2nd Baron Mulgrave | nd |
| CB/1/5/188 | Letter from C J Phipps, Plymouth Dock to Charles Blagden | 8 February 1781 |
| CB/1/5/184 | Letter from C J Phipps, Courageux Lat 40 degrees 29 to Charles Blagden | 19 July 1780 |
| CB/1/5/218 | Letter from C J Phipps to Charles Blagden | [1780?] |
| CB/1/5/199 | Letter from C J Phipps, Mulgrave Hall to Charles Blagden, King's Road, London | 31 October 1783 |
| MS/391/188 | Power of deputy, issued by Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society, to Constantine John Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave | 14 January 1779 |
| CB/1/5/194 | Letter from C J Phipps to Charles Blagden | 11 November 1781 |
| MS/90 | Copy of the Logbook of Captain Solomon Phipps | 1773 |