Charles N. P. Phipps

Charles Nicholas Paul Phipps (4 November 1845 – 9 December 1913), of Chalcot House, near Westbury, Wiltshire, was a merchant trading with Brazil, who sat as Conservative MP for Westbury (1880–1885) and was High Sheriff of Wiltshire (1888).

Having been educated at Eton, he was sent to Brazil to work for the family firm, Phipps & Co, which exported coffee from Rio de Janeiro.

A petition by the defeated Liberal Party candidate (and outgoing Member), Abraham Laverton, to have his election annulled on the grounds of bribery, treating and undue influence, failed.

He represented Westbury in the House of Commons until 1885, but did not stand again and was succeeded by George Fuller, a Liberal.

In 1874, he married Clare, the daughter of Sir Frederick Hervey Bathurst, of Clarendon Park, near Salisbury.