Ben Phipps) (November 3, 1904 - April 19, 1982)[1] was an American heir, businessman, plantation owner, conservationist and polo player.
His father was John Shaffer Phipps (1874–1958) and his mother, Margarita Celia Grace (1876-1957).
[3] He donated his land on Alligator Point, Florida to The Nature Conservancy for the study of birdlife.
[4] In 1941, together with his brother Michael Grace Phipps, Charles Skiddy von Stade and Alan L. Corey, Jr., he won the U.S. Open Polo Championship at the Meadow Brook Polo Club against the Westbury team (Gerald Dempsey, Earle Hopping, Stewart Iglehart and Windsor Holden White).
[3] He died at the Tallahassee Memorial Regional Medical Center in April 1982.