John Shaffer Phipps

John Shaffer Phipps

John Shaffer Phipps, (1874-1958), the heir to the Phipps fortune and owner of Grace Shipping.

Known as "Jay", he was the son of Pittsburgh steel magnate and major philanthropist, Henry Phipps. Jay Phipps was a director of the Hanover Bank, U.S. Steel Corp. and W. R. Grace & Co.

In 1897 he married Margarita Grace, the daughter of Michael Grace of Kilkenny, Ireland, who, with his brother William, founded the Grace Shipping Lines in South America. John and Margarita had four children: John Henry Howard, Peggie, Michael, and Hubert Phipps.

John amassed almost convert|2500|acre|km2 of rolling Virginia farm lands in The Plains, Virginia including Brenton, an 1889 stone manor house. A polo player and Thoroughbred racehorse owner, the property assembled from 1928 onwards would be the site of his Rockburn Stud farm. Upon his death in 1957 it passed to son Hubert B. Phipps.

Phipps purchased an old convert|160|acre|km2|sing=on Quaker farm on Long Island where he built a large mansion with magnificent gardens that following his death was became a non-profit organization that today is known as Westbury House & Gardens and is open to the public.

John Shaffer Phipps died in May 1958 in Palm Beach, Florida.

References

* [http://www.pbase.com/marchael/oldwestburygardens Photos of Westbury House & Gardens]
* "Halcyon Days: An American Family Through Three Generations" by Peggie Phipps Boegner (daughter of John Shaffer Phipps), Richard Gachot (1987) Harry N. Abrams, Inc. ISBN 0-8109-1064-0
* [http://www.thomas-talbot.com/brenton/index.htm "Brenton", The Plains, Virginia]
* [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,863430,00.html?promoid=googlep John Shaffer Phipps' death notice in the May. 12, 1958 issue of "Time" magazine]


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