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Phipps, Constantine John (1744-1792)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS 90

Held at: Royal Society

Title: Phipps, Constantine John (1744-1792)

Date(s): 1773

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 1 item

Name of creator(s): Phipps | Constantine John | 1744-1792 | Baron Mulgrave

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, 1744; 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'; Baron 1790; Fellow of the Royal Society, 1771; Vice President of the Royal Society, 1778-1792; died, 1792.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Copy of the Logbook kept on board the ship of the Hon. Captain Phipps, 1773.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

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Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.

Physical characteristics:

Paper, bound, size 16.5 x 9.75 inches.

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009.


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Ships logs | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources

Personal names
Phipps | Constantine John | 1744-1792 | Baron Mulgrave

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