Charles Beaumont Phipps

Colonel Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps KCB (27 December 1801 – 24 February 1866), was a British soldier and courtier.

Educated at Harrow,[1] Phipps joined the army by purchasing a commission as an ensign and lieutenant in the Scots Fusilier Guards on 17 August 1820.

[3] In 1832, his brother Constantine, then 2nd Earl of Mulgrave, was appointed Governor of Jamaica, and Charles accompanied him as his private secretary.

Mulgrave left the governorship in 1834, and was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1835; Phipps continued with him to act as steward of his official household.

[4] On 1 August 1846, Phipps was appointed an Equerry in Ordinary to Queen Victoria, succeeding Charles George James Arbuthnot,[5] and hereafter was much in the royal household.