51°14′18″N 2°13′35″W / 51.2383°N 2.2263°W / 51.2383; -2.2263 Chalcot House is a Grade II* listed country house to the south of the village of Dilton Marsh , near Westbury , Wiltshire , England, standing in Chalcot Park.
7-510: Chalcot House was built in the early 18th century on the site of an older house. In the nineteenth century, it was owned by Charles Paul Phipps (1815–1880), a merchant in Brazil, later Conservative MP for Westbury (1869–1874) and High Sheriff of Wiltshire for 1875. Phipps had the house extensively altered in 1872 by the fashionable architect James Piers St Aubyn . Phipps was succeeded at Chalcot by his son Charles N. P. Phipps (1845–1913), also
14-462: A member of parliament and High Sheriff. The three-storey house, in Flemish bond brickwork with stone dressings, has a five-bay front with pilasters flanking the ground-floor windows. Alterations were made in the twentieth century by the architect Theo Crosby and the house was restored again in 1970. A hoard of Romano-British coins was found buried near the house in 1973. An auction of contents
21-438: A stroke the previous year. In 1844, Phipps married Emma Mary Benson, who came from a mercantile family, being the daughter of Moses Benson of Liverpool and granddaughter of Moses Benson (1738–1806). Their eldest son, Charles Nicholas Paul Phipps , was also subsequently MP for Westbury and High Sheriff of Wiltshire. Their second son, William Wilton Phipps, was the grandfather of both Joyce Grenfell and Simon Wilton Phipps MC,
28-642: The business eventually flourished, becoming for a while one of the largest coffee exporters from Brazil. Between 1850 and the mid-1870s, the volume of coffee exported by the firm increased from 94,000 to about half a million bags per annum (valued at £2,000,000). In 1869, Phipps was elected as the Conservative Member of Parliament for Westbury , by 499 votes to 488 for the Liberal candidate, Abraham Laverton . He lost his seat to Laverton in 1874 by 22 votes. Phipps died on 8 June 1880, having suffered
35-472: The ranks of the landed gentry but, by the early 19th century, the family found themselves in reduced financial circumstances. In 1830, at the age of 15, Phipps was sent to Rio de Janeiro with twenty pounds in his pocket to seek his fortune. In 1837 he went into partnership with his older brother, John Lewis Phipps , buying out the Brazilian coffee business of Heyworth Brothers. Despite a number of alarms,
42-450: Was an English merchant in Brazil and later Conservative MP for Westbury (1869–1874) and High Sheriff of Wiltshire (1875). Charles Paul Phipps was the eighth son of Thomas Henry Hele Phipps (1777–1841), of Leighton House , Westbury, Wiltshire, and Mary Michael Joseph Leckonby (1777–1835). The Phippses had originally emerged as prominent Wiltshire clothiers in the 16th century. Over the next hundred years prosperity propelled them into
49-596: Was held at the house by Sotheby's in 1989. The house was sold by Nicholas Phipps, the last of the family to live there, and papers relating to the family are now held by the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre . In the 1990s, the house was owned by the stockbroker Tony Rudd , father of Amber Rudd . This article about a Wiltshire building or structure is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Charles Paul Phipps Charles Paul Phipps (1815–1880), of Chalcot House , near Westbury , Wiltshire,
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