[1] In 1873, he was Third Secretary in Rio de Janeiro and was requested by the Ambassador, George Buckley Mathew, to report on the condition of British emigrants in Brazil.
[4] In 1892 he was appointed Secretary of the Embassy at Paris[1] and in the following year promoted to be Minister Plenipotentiary[5] under the Ambassador to France, the Marquess of Dufferin and Ava.
[8] In 1900 Phipps was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of His Majesty the King of the Belgians.
[9] He was knighted as a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in the 1902 Coronation Honours list "for services in connection with the Sugar Conference",[10][11] and invested as such by King Edward VII at Buckingham Palace on 24 October 1902.
[14] Their son Eric Phipps became a diplomat in his turn, serving in the 1930s as ambassador successively to Berlin and Paris.