John Richard Noel "Jack" Phipps CBE (24 December 1925 – 6 August 2010) was a British arts administrator.
Their clients included Benjamin Britten (who was also godfather to Phipps’s son Martin[4]), Pilar Lorengar, Jessye Norman and Jill Gomez.
During his career Phipps forged close links with many musicians, including Colin Davis, Daniel Barenboim, Bernard Haitink and Yehudi Menuhin.
This led to an approach from the Arts Council of Great Britain, which in 1970 asked him to organise regional tours of opera, ballet and drama.
[6] Apart from a brief interlude as general manager of the Aldeburgh Festival, he remained at the Arts Council until his retirement in 1991.