Eric Phipps

Sir Eric Clare Edmund Phipps GCB, GCMG, GCVO, PC ( October 27, 1875 *, † August 13, 1945 ) was a British diplomat. Phipps was particularly known as a British ambassador in the German Reich between 1933 and 1937.

Life and diplomatic career

Phipps was born in 1875 as the son of British diplomat Sir Constantine Henry Phipps, Edmund and his wife Mary Jane Miller - Mundy. After studying at King's College, University of Cambridge Phipps went to the British diplomatic service, in which he recorded in 1899.

This was followed secretary post at the British representatives in Petrograd, Madrid and Paris before becoming a British Secretary attended the Versailles Peace Conference, 1919.

1933 Phipps was sent as successor to Sir Horace Rumbold as British ambassador to Berlin. In the following four years, he warned the British government with growing urgency before the aggression of the Nazi regime in Germany and particularly emphasized repeatedly the fact that this is an acceptance of its external action, without counter- measures were taken as a sign of weakness abroad and confirmation would conceive of its course, which it would then follow up with only a heightened pace. One of his closest allies in his warnings to the British government was about his brother Robert Vansittart, who held the post of permanent secretary of state at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office at that time.

In 1937, the displacement of Phipps as ambassador to Paris, where he worked until 1939.

Family and descendants

After Phipps first marriage in 1907 with Yvonne de Louvencourt 1909 ended with the death of his wife, he married in 1911 Frances Ward, with whom he had six children.

• British Ambassador to Germany
• Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
• Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George
• Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order
• Briton
• Born 1875
• Died in 1945
• Man
• British Ambassador to France