Career
He was born on November 12, 1905 in London, England. Hubert Phipps married Carla Gordon. They divorced in 1963.
A former president of the Virginia Thoroughbred Association, Hubert Phipps bred and raced Thoroughbreds.
He owned Rockburn Study 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.
