Constantine Phipps, 1st Baron Mulgrave (1722 – 13 September 1775) was an Irish peer. Phipps was baptised on 22 August 1722. On 26 February 1743, he married Hon. Lepell Hervey, the daughter of John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey and Mary Lepell. He was created Baron Mulgrave

Baron Mulgrave

Baron Mulgrave is a title that has been created three times for members of the Phipps family, once in the Peerage of Ireland and twice in the Peerage of Great Britain....

, of New Ross in the County of Wexford, in the Peerage of Ireland

Peerage of Ireland

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 in 1767.

Family

Constantine Phipps, 1st Baron Mulgrave was the son of Lady Catherine Annesley and William Phipps and grandson of Sir Constantine Henry Phipps (1656–1723), who served as Lord Chancellor of Ireland

Lord Chancellor of Ireland

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 from 1710 to 1714. Lady Catherine Annesley was the daughter and heiress of James Annesley, 3rd Earl of Anglesey

James Annesley, 3rd Earl of Anglesey

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 and his wife Lady Catherine Darnley (an illegitimate daughter of King James II

James II of England

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 by his mistress Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester). Lady Catherine Darnley had later married John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby

John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby

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, and hence Constantine Phipps, 1st Baron Mulgrave was the step-grandson of the 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby.

Descendants

Constantine Phipps, 1st Baron Mulgrave, and The Hon. Lepell Hervey had the following offspring:

• Constantine John Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave (30 May 1744 – 10 October 1792)
• Hon. Charles Phipps (1753–1786)
• Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave
  Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave
  Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave GCB, PC , styled The Honourable Henry Phipps until 1792 and known as The Lord Mulgrave from 1792 to 1812, was a British soldier and politician...
  
   (14 February 1755 – 7 April 1831)
• Hon. Henrietta Maria Phipps (26 March 1757 – 1 September 1782), married Charles Dillon-Lee, 12th Viscount Dillon
• General Hon. Edmund Phipps (7 April 1760 – 14 September 1837)
• Hon. Augustus Phipps (1762–1826)

Phipps died on 13th September 1775, aged fifty-three.