Hubert Beaumont Phipps (1906 - August 16, 1969) was a Virginia

Virginia

The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...

 publisher and editor as well as a breeder of thoroughbred

Thoroughbred

The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word thoroughbred is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed...

 horses and purebred

Purebred

Purebreds, also called purebreeds, are cultivated varieties or cultivars of an animal species, achieved through the process of selective breeding...

 cattle

Cattle

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. He was a member of the prominent Phipps family

Phipps family

The Henry Phipps family of the United States was founded by Henry Phipps, Jr., the son of an English shoemaker who emigrated in the early part of the 19th century to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania before settling in Pittsburgh. When a child, Henry Phipps was a friend and neighbor to Andrew Carnegie...

 who made a fortune in steel as partners with Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist, businessman, and entrepreneur who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century...

 in the steel-making business in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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Biography

He was born in 1906. Hubert Phipps married Carla Gordon. She died in 1950 and he subsequently Lady Phoebe Pleydell-Bouverie, third daughter of William Pleydell-Bouverie, 7th Earl of Radnor

William Pleydell-Bouverie, 7th Earl of Radnor

William Pleydell-Bouverie, 7th Earl of Radnor, KG, KCVO was born on 18 December 1895 and died in 1968. He was the son of Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 6th Earl of Radnor and Julian Eleanor Adelaide Balfour....

, with whom he had two children. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50D1FF9395E107B93CBA8178AD85F418585F9 They divorced in 1963.

A former president of the Virginia Thoroughbred Association, Hubert Phipps bred and raced Thoroughbred

Thoroughbred

The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word thoroughbred is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed...

s. He owned Rockburn Stud Farm in The Plains, Virginia

The Plains, Virginia

The Plains is a town in Fauquier County, Virginia, United States. The population was 266 at the 2000 census. It is centered around Virginia Route 55 and Virginia Route 245...

 and raced under the name of Rockburn Farm.

Since 1936 he published and edited The Fauquier Democrat, a weekly newspaper

Weekly newspaper

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 in Fauquier County, Virginia

Fauquier County, Virginia

As of the census of 2000, there were 55,139 people, 19,842 households, and 15,139 families residing in the county. The population density was 85 people per square mile . There were 21,046 housing units at an average density of 32 per square mile...

 and was the president of the Loudoun Times-Mirror.

He died on August 16, 1969.