He was born on November 12, 1905, in London, England. Hubert Phipps married Carla Gordon. She died in 1950 and he subsequently married Lady Phoebe Pleydell-Bouverie, third daughter of
William Pleydell-Bouverie, 7th Earl of Radnor, with whom he had two children. They divorced in 1963. A former president of the Virginia Thoroughbred Association, Hubert Phipps bred and raced
Thoroughbreds. He owned Rockburn Stud Farm in
The Plains, Virginia, and raced under the name of Rockburn Farm. Since 1936 he published and edited
The Fauquier Democrat, a
weekly newspaper in
Fauquier County, Virginia, and was the president of the
Loudoun Times-Mirror. He died on August 15, 1969, at his Rockburn Farm estate. ==References==