Pickering Phipps

Pickering Phipps I

Pickering Phipps (1772-1830) 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. He became mayor of Northampton in 1821. He had five sons two of whom, Richard and Thomas, initially inherited the business, as later did a grandson and great grandson, both named Pickering Phipps.

Pickering Phipps II

Pickering II (1827-1890) son of the original Pickering's 3rd son Edward, was also mayor of Northampton from 1860-1866, a JP and Conservative Member of Parliament for Northampton from 1874-1880. He built Collingtree Grange in 1875, which was since demolished, though the entrance lodges and gateway on the A45 road survive.

Pickering Phipps III

Pickering III (1861-1937) became a director of the company in 1886. In 1888, the company built new offices at 8 Gold Street, Northampton. In 1891, the Church of St Matthew's in Kettering Road, Northampton was built and paid for by the family in memory of Phipps II. This area of the town south-east of Kettering Road, known as "Phippsville" was built in the 1880s as a spacious, well-to-do suburb of the town. The large houses are now mostly converted into individual flats. Pickering IIIrd's Northampton home on Cliftonville Rd is now the head offices and showroom of the Jeffery-West shoe company. He was High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1897. He sold the Collingtree Grange Estate to the Sears family in 1913.

Northampton Pubs

Both Pickering Phipps and his great local rival, the Liberal MP for Northampton Charles Bradlaugh have pubs named after them in Northampton