Pickering Phipps
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Pickering Phipps is the name of three related men – father, grandson and great grandson – who were residents of Northampton, England in the 19th and 20th centuries. The first began the Phipps Brewery in Towcester in 1801. The company survives today as Phipps NBC.
Pickering Phipps (1772–1830) [1] founded a brewery in Towcester, Northamptonshire in 1801. In 1817, he opened a brewery in Bridge Street, Northampton, near to the River Nene and since 1973, the site of a large Carlsberg brewery by Danish architect Knud Munk.[2] He became mayor of Northampton in 1821. He had five sons, two of whom, Richard and Thomas, inherited the business, as later did a grandson and great grandson, both named Pickering Phipps.
Pickering Phipps II
Pickering Phipps II (1827–1890),[3] son of Pickering Phipps I's third son Edward, also held tenure as mayor of Northampton between 1860 and 1866,[1] a JP[3] as well as most notably serving as the Conservative Member of Parliament for Northampton from 1874 to 1880 and for South Northamptonshire from 1881 to 1885. He built Collingtree Grange in 1875, which was since demolished, though the entrance lodges and gateway on the A45 road still survive.